Cowboy Capitalists striking out to find their fortunes in the last Wild West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVOOt1ymJ_4
For maverick entrepreneur Ian Cox, Africa is the last frontier of free enterprise. In 2012 he nabbed a lucrative United Nations contract to transport equipment from South Africa to South Sudan, a country on many countries' embargo list.
The other problem: the journey north entails passing through countless checkpoints and dealing with bribe-happy officials and their nonsensical paperwork and regulations.
Photographer and filmmaker Tim Freccia followed around Ian and the guys he hired for this job. "Cowboy Capitalists" documents their attempts to navigate the continent's dangerous roads and bureaucratic chaos.
Originally published on @VICE in June 2013, and rereleased here for the first time in full.
https://stacker.news/items/1008788
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