Poisoned wells the dirty politics of African oil
Each week the oil and gas fields of sub-Saharan Africa produce well over a billion dollars' worth of oil, an amount that far exceeds development aid to the entire African continent. Yet the rising tide of oil money is not promoting stability and development, but is instead causing violence, pov...
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ST. Martin's Griffin
2008
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Inhaltsangabe:
- A paradox of plenty in the new Gulf
- Fela Kuti : how things fell apart in the oil boom
- Pedro Motú : a morph to another world
- Abel Abraāo : wielding the oil weapon
- Omar Bongo : taking the red pill
- Eva Joly : elf Africaine and the rabbit warren
- André Milongo : golden eggs
- Obiang Nguema : what caring neighbors do
- Fradique de Menezes : battening down the hatches
- Arcadi Gaydamak : between global borders
- Dokubo-Asari : corroding the soul of a nation
- Global witness : hooligans and rock stars
- Conclusion: Drawing the poison