The new scramble for Africa / Pádraig Carmody.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.Edition: Second editionDescription: xiii, 282 p ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781509507085 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.96 23
LOC classification:
  • HC800 .C26
Contents:
The new scramble, geography and development -- Old economic power interests and strategies in Africa -- Chinese interests and strategies in Africa with Ian Taylor -- Other new economic power interests and relations with Africa -- Driving the global economy: West African and Sahelian oil -- The scramble for land: the Ugandan case with David Taylor -- Powering and connecting the global economy through conflict: uranium and coltan -- Furnishing and feeding the world? Timber, biofuels, plants, food and fisheries -- The Asian scramble for investment and markets: evidence and impacts in Zambia with Godfrey Hampwaye -- Can Africans unscramble the continent? -- Conclusion: the new scramble in perspective.
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General Collection item General Collection item Athi-River Campus Open Shelves HC800.C26 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK0102426
General Collection item General Collection item Athi-River Campus Open Shelves HC800.C26 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK0102427
General Collection item General Collection item Nairobi Campus Open Shelves HC800.C26 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK0102429
General Collection item General Collection item Nairobi Campus Open Shelves HC800.C26 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BK0102428

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new scramble, geography and development -- Old economic power interests and strategies in Africa -- Chinese interests and strategies in Africa with Ian Taylor -- Other new economic power interests and relations with Africa -- Driving the global economy: West African and Sahelian oil -- The scramble for land: the Ugandan case with David Taylor -- Powering and connecting the global economy through conflict: uranium and coltan -- Furnishing and feeding the world? Timber, biofuels, plants, food and fisheries -- The Asian scramble for investment and markets: evidence and impacts in Zambia with Godfrey Hampwaye -- Can Africans unscramble the continent? -- Conclusion: the new scramble in perspective.

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