Andrew Feinstein has been invited to give Transparency International UK's (TI-UK) first London lecture of the year, focusing on corruption in the arms trade. Feinstein is a former South African politician and was elected an ANC member of parliament in South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. He resigned in 2001 in protest at the ANC government's refusal to allow an unfettered investigation into a £5bn arms deal that was tainted by allegations of high-level corruption.

His political memoir, After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey Inside the ANC, was published in 2007 and became a bestseller in South Africa.

His recent book, The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, exposes in forensic detail both the formal government-to-government trade in arms and the shadow world of illicit weapons dealing - and lays bare the shocking and inextricable links between the two.

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