By Douglas A. Yates
ISBN-10: 0745330452
ISBN-13: 9780745330457
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Release date: January 17, 2012 | ISBN-10: 0745330452 | ISBN-13: 978-0745330457
Africa is usually visible as a spot to be pitied or feared as a space of instability. This booklet demanding situations those complacent assumptions, exhibiting how our call for for oil contributes to the power difficulties plaguing the continent. Douglas A. Yates indicates how the 'scramble' by way of the good powers for African oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy. Yates files how Africans have refused to stay passive within the face of such advancements, forming hobbies to problem this new try at domination. This booklet is an pressing problem to our knowing of Africa, elevating questions on the results of our reliance on overseas assets. will probably be important analyzing for all these learning improvement and international political economic system.
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With agents at every port watching and listening as his eyes and ears, Foccart masterminded numerous coups against independent-minded nationalists while installing in power a new generation of African rulers loyal to De Gaulle and himself. In the case of Gabon, he orchestrated the victory of Léon Mba as the country’s first president. If Mba tried, at first, to promote real autonomy for his country, after a failed coup in 1964, when French paratroopers restored him to power, the president Yates T02093 01 text 27 02/12/2011 09:19 28 The Scramble for African Oil of Gabon thereafter took his orders from Foccart.
Péan 1983) It was he who pushed De Gaulle to break up the two large colonial federations of French West and Equatorial Africa into smaller countries before granting them self-rule. Foccart argued that it would be easier for France to control and dominate a dozen smaller African states than two large federations, especially in competition with the United States or other nations. He thought that Gabon, where petroleum resources were being developed at this time, would be easy to control because it was small, and because it lacked roads.
Extraversion” is a term coined by the French political scientist Jean-François Bayart (1993) to describe how relatively weak economic development, and internal social struggles, made African political actors more “extraverted,” that is, more disposed to mobilize resources from relations with actors in the international system; our fifth factor of African dependency. African extraversion was conditioned by a traditional political culture that Bayart called the “politics of the belly” (a cultural attitude towards power and consumption expressed by the African folk saying, “A goat grazes where it is tethered”—that is, a ruler will consume wealth where he is sovereign).
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