In African Countries and the Global Scramble for China, Mbaidjol engages the reader, from African perspectives and African People’s interests, in a theme that

Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan.

Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of “Africa risi

In recent years, China and India have become the most important economic partners of Africa and their footprints are growing by leaps and bounds, transforming A

Raises significant general questions relating to the nature of global competition between the US and China; the centrality of the struggle for oil and minerals