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    Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
    Panacea or Pandora's Box?

    Nathan Andrews (Edited by), j. Andrew Grant (Edited by), Jesse Salah Ovadia (Edited by)

    9781487505219

    Hardback, published 7 April 2022

    392 pages, 4 b&w figures, 11 b&w tables
    23.6 x 16 x 3.6 cm, 0.68 kg

    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.

    Section I: Introduction

    1. An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
    Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia, and Adam Sneyd

    Section II: Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels

    2. Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: ‘New Governance’ Insights from South Africa
    Raynold Wonder Alorse and Nathan Andrews

    3. The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana’s ‘Oil City’: How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
    Jesse Salah Ovadia and Emmanuel Graham

    4. Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Oil
    Abigail Efua Hilson

    5. Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
    Patricia Ackah-Baidoo, Andrea M. Collins, and J. Andrew Grant

    6. Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
    Steffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz, and Adam Sneyd

    Section III: Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement

    7. Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
    Carolyn Bassett and Allyson Fradella

    8. ‘The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths’: An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
    Alexander Caramento

    9. Promoting Mining Local Procurement Through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO’s Efforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
    Jeff Geipel and Emily Nickerson

    10. The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
    Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Alex Awiti

    11. ‘Community Development’ in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
    Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu

    Section IV: Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus

    12. Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
    Chris Huggins

    13. Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    Sarah Katz-Lavigne

    14. China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing’s Foreign Policy in Africa
    David Walsh-Pickering

    Section V: Concluding Remarks and Reflections

    15. Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
    Nathan Andrews, Edward Akuffo, and J. Andrew Grant
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