Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize - Hardcover

Clarke, Duncan

3.37

19 ratings by Goodreads

9781846680977: Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1846680972 ISBN 13: 9781846680977

Publisher: IPS - Profile Books, 2009

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story, when it comes to the continent's history. A definitive yet original perspective on the rush for Africa's oil, this is also a guide to the hidden face of Africa.

Duncan Clarke begins by placing African oil issues in their historical context before tackling the issues of power, nationalism and different parties' strategies for control that have led to today's oil scene. This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa - which is vital to everyone's future around the world.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Duncan Clarke is Chairman and CEO of Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm operating from offices in London, The Hague, Johannesburg and Nicosia. He gained his PhD in economics in 1975, and was a lecturer, economist and advisor, before establishing GP&P, with a focus on economics and strategy in the worldwide upstream industry.

Review:

"[Duncan] Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa."―Barron’s Magazine

'The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry.' - Financial Times

'A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region.' - Foreign Affairs Journal (USA)

'Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa.' - Barron’s Magazine

'The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry.' - Financial Times

'A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region.' - Foreign Affairs Journal (USA)

'Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa.' - Barron’s Magazine

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.