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Crude continent : the struggle for Africa's oil prize / Duncan Clarke

Author
Clarke, Duncan G., 1948-
Published
London : Profile, 2008.
Physical Description
xiii, 674 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents
DISCOVERING AFRICA: Backtracking Leo Africanus -- Writing Africa -- Medieval continent -- Scrambles for Africa -- STRUGGLES FOR AFRICA'S OIL BOUNTY: The house of cards -- Rising colossus -- The family business -- Glitter 'n' gloss in the Gulf of Guinea -- Siamese twins -- Managing "in loco parentis" -- Maghreb giants -- North African minnows -- Atlantic salient to Sahelian shores -- Hope in the heart of darkness -- Africa's conflicted Horn -- Eastern promise -- Southern African periphery -- The state of exception -- Islands in the sun -- Africa's hapless and hopeless -- GUARDIANS AND GREAT POWERS: The world's frontier -- Africa's prize -- Charms of resource nationalism -- Grand strategy for hegemony -- CORPORATE QUEST FOR CRUDE: Africa's "Big Five" animals -- Antelopes in the food chain -- Mammals in the bush -- Gazelles on the run -- Minnows and chongololos -- AFRICA'S OIL LOCOMOTIVE: Continental "oil curse"? -- Masters and servants in medieval Africa.
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ISBN
9781846680977 (hbk.)
1846680972 (hbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [568]-638) and index.
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