Nicholas Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a former staff reporter for Reuters-London, a regular contributor on oil in Africa’s Guinea Gulf to the Financial Times, and profiled President Obiango for BBC News in 2004. He is the Africa fellow at the UK-based think-tank Chatham House, and his book Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2007.