The Next Fix
Lara Pawson: African Oil, 7 February 2008
Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson.
Palgrave, 280 pp., £15.99, May 2007,978 1 4039 7194 4 Show More
by Nicholas Shaxson.
Palgrave, 280 pp., £15.99, May 2007,
Oil Wars
edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said.
Pluto, 294 pp., £17.99, March 2008,978 0 7453 2478 4 Show More
edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Lynn Karl and Yahia Said.
Pluto, 294 pp., £17.99, March 2008,
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil
by John Ghazvinian.
Harcourt Brace, 320 pp., $25, April 2007,978 0 15 101138 4 Show More
by John Ghazvinian.
Harcourt Brace, 320 pp., $25, April 2007,
“... will not still be in power after the next elections. A similarly ill-founded optimism informs John Ghazvinian’s Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil. ‘Between the “scramble for African oil” and the “paradox of plenty”, there is bound to be a happy medium,’ he concludes. ‘And between the red roasting sun that cracks up its soil ... ”
