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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| Summary: | 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, poverty, and stagnation. It is also generating vast corruption that reaches deep into American and European economies. In Poisoned Wells, Nicholas Shaxson exposes the root causes of this paradox of poverty from plenty, and explores the mechanisms by which oil causes grave instabilities and corruption around the globe. Shaxson is the only journalist who has had access to the key players in African oil, and is willing to make the connections between the problems of the developing world and the involvement of leading global corporations and governments.-- From publisher description. |
| Physical Description: | VIII, 280 S. |
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POISONED WELLS THE DIRTY POLITICS OF AFRICAN OIL NICHOLAS SHAXSON
PALQRAVE MACMILLAN CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII INTRODUCTION: A PARADOX
OF PLENTY IN THE NEW GULF 1 1. FELA KUTI: HOW THINGS FELL APART IN THE
OIL BOOM 9 2. PEDRO MOTU: A MORPH TO ANOTHER WORLD 27 3. ABEL ABRASO:
WIELDING THE OIL WEAPON 41 4. OMAR BONGO: TAKING THE RED PILL 63 5. EVA
JOLY: ELF AFRICAINE AND THE RABBIT WARREN 83 6. ANDRE MILONGO: GOLDEN
EGGS 103 7. OBIANG NGUEMA: WHAT CARING NEIGHBORS DO 121 8. FRADIQUE DE
MENEZES: BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES 145 9. ARCADI GAYDAMAK: BETWEEN
GLOBAL BORDERS 165 10. DOKUBO-ASARI: CORRODING THE SOUL OF A NATION 189
11. GLOBAL WITNESS: HOOLIGANS AND ROCK STARS 209 CONCLUSION: DRAWING THE
POISON 223 NOTES 237 INDEX 273 |
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POISONED WELLS THE DIRTY POLITICS OF AFRICAN OIL NICHOLAS SHAXSON
PALQRAVE MACMILLAN CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS VII INTRODUCTION: A PARADOX
OF PLENTY IN THE NEW GULF 1 1. FELA KUTI: HOW THINGS FELL APART IN THE
OIL BOOM 9 2. PEDRO MOTU: A MORPH TO ANOTHER WORLD 27 3. ABEL ABRASO:
WIELDING THE OIL WEAPON 41 4. OMAR BONGO: TAKING THE RED PILL 63 5. EVA
JOLY: ELF AFRICAINE AND THE RABBIT WARREN 83 6. ANDRE MILONGO: GOLDEN
EGGS 103 7. OBIANG NGUEMA: WHAT CARING NEIGHBORS DO 121 8. FRADIQUE DE
MENEZES: BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES 145 9. ARCADI GAYDAMAK: BETWEEN
GLOBAL BORDERS 165 10. DOKUBO-ASARI: CORRODING THE SOUL OF A NATION 189
11. GLOBAL WITNESS: HOOLIGANS AND ROCK STARS 209 CONCLUSION: DRAWING THE
POISON 223 NOTES 237 INDEX 273 |
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