Exploitation of Energy Resources in Africa and the Consequences for Minority Rights

Julia Maxted
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Julia Maxted: Canterbury Christ Church University, UK, j.e.maxted@canterbury.ac.uk

Journal of Developing Societies, 2006, vol. 22, issue 1, 29-37

Abstract: Recent case studies from the Western Sahara, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Angola, reveal the increasing militarization of the development of oil and gas reserves in Africa. This is generating social tension and, in particular, exacerbating the repression of minority groups. Private security forces and African standing armies are being used to secure the interests of American, Asian and European companies as they seek to extend their control over natural resources in collaboration with state elites. Confronting the destruction of their environments and continued underinvestment, minority groups are actively seeking to attach socioeconomic rights more self-consciously to their demand for political rights.

Keywords: dispossession of natural resources; minority groups; new ‘imperialism’ transnational oil companies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0169796X06062967

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