The scramble for African oil: oppression, corruption and war for control of Africa's natural resources

✍ Scribed by Yates, Douglas Andrew

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: New politics progressive policy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent.

Douglas A. Yates shows how the 'scramble' by the great powers for African oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy. Yates documents how Africans have refused to remain passive in the face of such developments, forming movements to challenge this new attempt at domination.

This book is an urgent challenge to our understanding of Africa, raising questions about the consequences of our reliance on foreign resources. It will be vital reading for all those studying development and global political economy.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Maps......Page 7
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Part I: Power from Above......Page 22
1 - Foreign States and Trade Relations......Page 24
2 - Multinational Corporations and Nationalization......Page 46
3 - International Organization and Governance......Page 68
4 - Rentier States and Kleptocracy......Page 90
5 - Praetorian Regimes and Terror......Page 112
Part II: Power From Below......Page 138
6 - Journalists and Intellectuals......Page 140
7 - Political Parties and Elections......Page 166
8 - Armed Struggle for Independence......Page 189
9 - Popular Resistance and People Power......Page 211
10 - Unscrambling the Scramble for African Oil......Page 229
Bibliography......Page 250
Index......Page 259

✦ Subjects

Cultural;Africa