Africa's Rich Oil: From Blessing To A Curse Of Rampant Corruption And Bad Governance On The Continent?

Feb 17, 2019 | Josephus Moses Gray
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The African continent in recent years has come to be of major Geo-strategic importance to oil-dependent industrialized economies and the idea of an African rebirth seems to be finding more and more acceptance within the contemporary global politics. Will this produce any benefits for the continent’s larger impoverished inhabitants or only benefit foreign capitalists, corrupt political bureaucrats, and heads of governments?