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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian
from Harcourt

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• An underwhelming book
  Having just finished The Prize, Daniel Yergin's excellent book about the history of oil, I looked forward to reading this book to find out more about what was happening on the African oil scene. However, I must say I was severely disappointed. While the first person tales of travel through many of these West African oil countries is fascinating stuff, I sometimes felt the author was losing track of his story. Surely there was no need to spend time with cocoa bean farmers in Sao Tome who appeared to have... more info

• pimp economics + transition to democracy = disaster
  It turns out Africa is full of oil. Among other great natural resources. Why isn't Africa becoming as wealthy as Norway? There are many reasons for this, which John Ghazvinian discovers through his research and exploration of African oil exporting nations. the most exciting thing about this book is that the price of oil nearly doubled after the book was published.
  He starts in Nigeria. Nigeria has been exporting oil for over 40 years. They've managed to lower the prosperity of most of its citizens... more info

• The Africa you never knew...
  This book will answer and put into perspective a lot of the nagging questions you've ever had about Africa's colonial past, tribal struggles, economic booms and failures, and ideas on where she's headed in the not-too-distant future. Once read, you'll never see her (or the oil conglomerates) in news headlines the same again, for better or for worse.

• Quick and good
  This is a great book for anyone who wants to get a good overview of what is going on in The Central/ Western region on Africa and Oil. The reader meets people and actually travels and hence makes it a much easier and entertaining read. I had anticipated that there would be more talk on the Cameroon-Chad Pipeline project but it was just brushed over. Nevertheless, it provides a great insight of what is going on and how the growing Oil industry is affecting Africa.

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