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A new scramble for Africa
Imperialism, Investment and Development
Edited by Roger Southall and Henning Melber
Dramatically escalating prices of raw materials, driven by rapid industrialization in China and other countries of the global south as well as by looming world shortages, had for the few years preceding the financial meltdown and global recession of 2009 promoted a new scramble for Africa’s natural resources. It signaled a risk turnaround in prospects for what the The Economist had dubbed the ‘hopeless continent’ as recently as 1999. However, while average growth rates across the continent have increased, the implications for Africa’s development were and remain at best dubious.
In this timely volume, the new scramble for Africa is placed in the historical context of imperialism and the contributors show important continuities with the original nineteenth-century scramble. While the previous scramble was between major European powers, today the continent provides a battleground for competition between the United States, the European Union, China and other merging players such as India and South Africa.
This book raises significant general questions relating to the nature of merging global competition between the United States and China; the centrality of the struggle for oil and minerals and resulting militarisation; the international battle to capture Africa’s markets; the production of multinational companies bring to African communities. Arguing that exploitation of the continent by comprador African elites remains central, the book concludes by asking relevant questions about the prospects for development in Africa.
Roger Southall is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Henning Melber is Executive Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden.
Price: 290.00 N$ incl. VAT
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg 2009
ISBN 9781869141714
170 x 240 mm
440 pages, softcover
Weight: 750 g |
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