He has worked with multinational media companies across the continent and has over a decade's experience in journalism. Frank Lucas, whose story was adapted into the 2007 film American Gangster played by Denzel Washington, has died at the age of 88. Support Pan-African Journalism SubscribeHe flew to Bangkok, Thailand where he fraternized with U.S. Army sergeant Leslie “Ike” Atkinson from North Carolina who helped him smuggle heroine to the United States via caskets of dead Vietnam War soldiers. He was noted to have worked with only relatives and close friends from North Carolina in the heroin trade who he trusted would not steal from him. The Universal Pictures film has been criticized for fabrication which Lucas admitted the film was largely untrue.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 01, 2019 15:01 UTC