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Nicholas Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist who writes regularly for the Financial Times, The Economist, and several other publications. He is an associate fellow with the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, and a world authority on the politics and economics of the oil-producing nations of the Gulf of Guinea. He has been covering the African oil trade for over ten years.

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