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,
“... about his country’s relationship with the former colonial power. ‘Africa without France,’ he said, ‘is a car without a driver. France without Africa is a car without petrol.’ Bongo, Africa’s longest serving leader, has held onto office by ensuring that money and power are distributed among different ethnic groups, but he has also relied on local ... ”
