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 LynnKarl and Yahia Said.
Pluto, 294 pp., £17.99, March 2008,978 0 7453 2478 4 Show More
edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry LynnKarl 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,
“... African oil is sweeter and lighter than Middle Eastern crudes and in recent years it has begun to look increasingly desirable. For political reasons, it became especially attractive after 9/11, and today the US imports more oil from Africa than from the entire Persian Gulf. But there is competition: China now imports more than a quarter of its oil from African countries and Angola has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become its chief supplier ... ”
