Will Africa be the last oil frontier?
The current run on Africa’s oil resources has strong echoes with the continent’s colonial past. The global movement’s task is to not let corporations get away with it.
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Lee Wengraf is the author of Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa (Haymarket Books 2018 and re-issued by Daraja Press in 2021) and a contributing editor at the Review of African Political Economy.
The current run on Africa’s oil resources has strong echoes with the continent’s colonial past. The global movement’s task is to not let corporations get away with it.
No amount of clean technology, industrial growth or boosts to GDP will avert the economic and climate crises inextricable to profit-driven extraction.