The impact of oil exploitation on residents of the Niger Delta is explored in Curse of the Black Gold, which features the photos of Ed Kashi. Kashi describes social misery as well as grassroots resistance to the designs of Big Oil and the Nigerian government. George Caffentzis is encouraged by an emerging emphasis on petroleum as common property.
Patrick Bond, "The Financial Meltdown" Links
Patrick Bond, Looting Africa: The Politics of Exploitation Zed, 2006
The role that transnational corporations and neoliberal policies play in keeping poor countries down is of intense interest to Patrick Bond, not least because South Africa, where he lives, is in trouble economically and environmentally. Recently Bond has written about the economic meltdown, pollution headaches in Africa, and social activist initiatives.
In his new book Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Michael Klare argues that a global political realignment of historic proportions is under way, based on ever-more-intense competition for reliable energy supplies. Klare describes emerging Big Power alliances and rivalries in energy-rich sites like the Caspian basin and Africa.
Minter, Hovey & Cobb Jr., eds., No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 Africa World Press, 2008
The US-based campaigns against South African apartheid attracted a lot of attention, but they did not of course constitute the only activism around Africa solidarity. William Minter has co-edited a volume that tells the story of five decades of solidarity between Africans and Americans. In a chapter about the 1950s, Lisa Brock profiles three committed organizers.
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