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There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource–based development. Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participant observations, this collection contributes to both scholarly and policy discussions around the governance and economic development roles of local entrepreneurs, transnational firms, civil society groups, local communities, and government agencies in Africa’s natural resource sectors. Natural Resource–Based Development in Africa explores the impact that these actors have on regional trends such as resource nationalism and local procurement policies as well as grassroots-related issues such as poverty, livelihoods, gender equity, development, and human security.
Nathan Andrews is an associate professor of international relations at McMaster University.J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor of political studies at Queen’s University.Jesse Salah Ovadia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.
Section I: Introduction1. An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in AfricaNathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia, and Adam SneydSection II: Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels2. Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: ‘New Governance’ Insights from South AfricaRaynold Wonder Alorse and Nathan Andrews3. The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana’s ‘Oil City’: How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-TakoradiJesse Salah Ovadia and Emmanuel Graham4. Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s OilAbigail Efua Hilson5. Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and UgandaPatricia Ackah-Baidoo, Andrea M. Collins, and J. Andrew Grant6. Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil SectorsSteffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz, and Adam SneydSection III: Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement7. Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent DevelopmentCarolyn Bassett and Allyson Fradella8. ‘The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths’: An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource NationalismAlexander Caramento9. Promoting Mining Local Procurement Through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO’s Efforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining IndustryJeff Geipel and Emily Nickerson10. The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in AfricaCharis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Alex Awiti11. ‘Community Development’ in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline ProjectIbironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu Section IV: Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus12. Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African RepublicChris Huggins13. Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of CongoSarah Katz-Lavigne14. China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing’s Foreign Policy in AfricaDavid Walsh-PickeringSection V: Concluding Remarks and Reflections15. Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020sNathan Andrews, Edward Akuffo, and J. Andrew Grant