Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones
by Greg Campbell
Book Summary Information
Author: Greg CampbellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-09
ISBN: 0813339391
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Basic Books
Book Reviews of Blood Diamonds: Tracing The Deadly Path Of The World's Most Precious Stones
Book Review: Greg Campbell goes to Sierra Leone
Summary: 4 Stars
Mr Campbell's book is a compelling account of his investigation into the brutal decade-long conflict that plagued Sierra Leone from the 90's to the early 2000's. It is a very helpful book if you want to understand the local, regional and international ramifications of this purely economic war; a war fought over control of the country's diamond resources.
His tracing of the smuggling of these diamonds into the hands of international terrorist networks is very eye-opening and the most fascinating part of this book to me.
This book is an easy, quick read as the author makes this difficult subject easy to understand. You could perhaps criticize this for not being the most academic-structured work instead having a more sensational type literature style. But he is a journalist after all.
The only quibble I have with this book and for which I deducted one star is he fell into the same trap which a lot of non-Africans do and this is his generalization of Sierra Leone as Africa. He must realize his experience of Sierra Leone is unique to Sierra Leone and not typical of the second largest, most ethnically and racially diverse continent in the world. His references to an 'African sun' (hello, the entire solar system only has one sun. Africa does not get its special sun), 'African market', 'African city' were very annoying. There are over 60 different countries on the continent. Making large sweeping generalizations based on a tiny country the size of North Carolina is for lack of a better word; ignorant.
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