Black Diamond uncovers the mechanisms of the lucrative international trade of hundreds of young African players with their heads full of dreams who are ready for tremendous sacrifices to become the new soccer superstar. Tricked by crooked agents who attract them with false promises of professional careers in Europe or the Middle-East, fenced in dubious -football academies- where they receive no education, these children are the victims of a genuine traffic in which they are treated like commodities. A flagrant violation of human rights inscribed in the system of globalized football.—Anonymous

It's an old story with a perverse new twist. Before, it was known as the transatlantic trade in slaves. Today, it's just called business. This is the compelling story of an international web of speculation and trafficking in boys, under the aegis of global football. From the slums of Accra and Abidjan to the petrodollar sports temples and the secret politics of a top ranking club in the Football Money league, our intrepid Ghanaian journalist tracks 'Ananse', the spider, who swindles and frauds and whose myriad stories underpin Ghanaian popular history. We discover that in the Human Market Place,if you cannot unearth the diamond, then fool's gold will do. As long as you take something to market, someone will buy.—Anonymous