New Scramble for Africa

Pádraig Carmody is an Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy at the University of Johannesburg

• Introduction1 The New Scramble, Geography and Development2 Old Economic Power Interests and Strategies in Africa3 Chinese Interests and Strategies in Africa [with Ian Taylor]4 Other New Economic Power Interests and Relations with Africa5 Driving the Global Economy: West African and Sahelian Oil6 The Scramble for Land: The Ugandan Case [with David Taylor]7 Powering and Connecting the Global Economy through Conflict: Uranium and Coltan8 Furnishing and Feeding the World? Timber, Biofuels, Plants, Food and Fisheries9 The Asian Scramble for Investment and Markets: Evidence and Impacts in Zambia [with Godfrey Hampwaye]10 Can Africans Unscramble the Continent?Conclusion: The New Scramble in Perspective

"This �new scramble for Africa� provides an excellent overview of the current development and exploitation of Africa�s resources showing how African development is defined by the �paradox of plenty�. This collection is a must for scholars interested in understanding processes of resource grabbing in Africa from colonial times until now, illustrating the variety of forms it has taken and unrevelaing the various root causes."Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University"Follow the money is a key message of Carmody�s supercharged analysis of the new competitive scramble for Africa�s petroleum and minerals, for its timber, even for its food crops. Few have so well exposed the mechanisms and consequences of this avarice, and particularly of China�s all-encompassing shaping of Africa�s dynamic future. Carmody is a very reliable guide and his second edition is even more definitive than the first."Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard University