Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa

Nathan Andrews is an associate professor of international relations at McMaster University. J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor of political studies at Queen’s University. Jesse Salah Ovadia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.

Section I: Introduction

1. An Evolving Agenda on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa
Nathan Andrews, J. Andrew Grant, Jesse Salah Ovadia, and Adam Sneyd

Section II: Governance Framings at Local, National, and Global Levels

2. Corporate Framing of Sustainability in the Mineral Sector: ‘New Governance’ Insights from South Africa
Raynold Wonder Alorse and Nathan Andrews

3. The Resource Curse and Limits of Petro-Development in Ghana’s ‘Oil City’: How Oil Production Has Impacted Sekondi-Takoradi
Jesse Salah Ovadia and Emmanuel Graham

4. Stakeholder Salience and Resource Enclavity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Oil
Abigail Efua Hilson

5. Gender, Land Grabbing, and Glocal Land Governance in Ghana and Uganda
Patricia Ackah-Baidoo, Andrea M. Collins, and J. Andrew Grant

6. Governing Artisanal Commodity Extraction in Cameroon: A Comparative Analysis of the Gold and Palm Oil Sectors
Steffi Hamann, Brendan Schwartz, and Adam Sneyd

Section III: Critical Approaches to Inclusive Development: The Politics of Resource Nationalism, Local Procurement, and Community Engagement

7. Copper Economics and Local Entrepreneurs in Zambia: Accumulation by Dispossession and the Possibility of Dependent Development
Carolyn Bassett and Allyson Fradella

8. ‘The Curse of Being Born with a Copper Spoon in Our Mouths’: An Examination of the Changing Forms of Zambian Resource Nationalism
Alexander Caramento

9. Promoting Mining Local Procurement Through Systems Change: A Canadian NGO’s Efforts to Improve the Development Impacts of the Global Mining Industry
Jeff Geipel and Emily Nickerson

10. The Promises and Pitfalls of Pursuing Inclusive, Sustainable Development through Resource Corridors in Africa
Charis Enns, Brock Bersaglio, and Alex Awiti

11. ‘Community Development’ in Oil and Gas Projects: The Case of the West African Gas Pipeline Project
Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu

Section IV: Land and Human Security: Central Africa in Focus

12. Land, High-Value Natural Resources, and Conflict in the Central African Republic
Chris Huggins

13. Copper Stakes: Exclusion, Corporate Strategies, and Property Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Sarah Katz-Lavigne

14. China and the Democratic Republic of Congo: What the Sicomines Agreement Tells Us about Beijing’s Foreign Policy in Africa
David Walsh-Pickering

Section V: Concluding Remarks and Reflections

15. Reflections on Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa in the 2020s
Nathan Andrews, Edward Akuffo, and J. Andrew Grant