BONUS: The Ghanaian Conman Who Fooled Everyone, Including Washington DC

Yepoka Yeebo spent six years unearthing the tale of John Ackah Blay-Miezah, a Ghanaian trickster who convinced the world he had access to gold, diamonds and riches squirreled away by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. The gold, and Nkrumah’s legendary corruption, were lies. But Blay-Miezah led a merry deception for decades, calling himself a king, buying a football team and conning investors from Accra to Annapolis that he was a genius mega-financier.