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The Scramble for African Oil : Oppression, Corruption and War for Control of Africa's Natural Resources.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Politics, Progressive Policy SeriesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849646284
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Scramble for African OilDDC classification:
  • 338.2728096
LOC classification:
  • HD9577.A2 Y38 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Maps -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Power from Above -- 1 - Foreign States and Trade Relations -- 2 - Multinational Corporations and Nationalization -- 3 - International Organization and Governance -- 4 - Rentier States and Kleptocracy -- 5 - Praetorian Regimes and Terror -- Part II: Power From Below -- 6 - Journalists and Intellectuals -- 7 - Political Parties and Elections -- 8 - Armed Struggle for Independence -- 9 - Popular Resistance and People Power -- 10 - Unscrambling the Scramble for African Oil -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: How Western control of Africa's oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy, and how African people have resisted.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, Boxes and Maps -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Power from Above -- 1 - Foreign States and Trade Relations -- 2 - Multinational Corporations and Nationalization -- 3 - International Organization and Governance -- 4 - Rentier States and Kleptocracy -- 5 - Praetorian Regimes and Terror -- Part II: Power From Below -- 6 - Journalists and Intellectuals -- 7 - Political Parties and Elections -- 8 - Armed Struggle for Independence -- 9 - Popular Resistance and People Power -- 10 - Unscrambling the Scramble for African Oil -- Bibliography -- Index.

How Western control of Africa's oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy, and how African people have resisted.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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