List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction: resource governance at a time of plenty -- Theoretical debates in natural resource politics -- States and markets in the context of a resource boom : engaging with critical IPE --...

While natural resource revenues ought to enable development, past experiences with the 'Paradox of Plenty' have shown that mineral and oil wealth often represents a curse rather than a blessing, inducing slower growth and higher levels of poverty. Many resource rich countries have high poverty...

1. Background -- 2. The Africa Precolonial Social, Political and Economic Development -- 3. Post-Independence Politics in Africa -- 4. Technology and Deindustrialisation -- 5. Education and Labour -- 6. Economy and Agriculture -- 7. Infrastructure -- 8. Corruption and Under-development in Africa...