Africa's Oil Tycoons. Daphne Eviatar.
by Eviatar, Daphne; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 71Environment. Publisher: Nation, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Angola -- Economic conditions | Angola -- Politics and government | Angola -- Social conditions | Angola -- History -- Civil War (1975- ) | ChevronTexaco Corporation | Petroleum industry and trade -- Angola | Political corruption -- Africa | Social responsibility of business | U.S. -- Foreign relations -- AngolaDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Twenty-seven years of civil war fueled by a lethal mix of oil, diamonds and cold war enemies have left one of Africa's potentially richest countries a shambles. Although its own kleptocratic leaders and homegrown revolutionaries deserve much of the blame, it's impossible to divorce what's happened from the constant manipulation of outsiders--from the Portuguese, who kept Angola under the thumb of colonial rule for 500 years, to the United States and white-led South Africa, which bankrolled Angola's rebels during the cold war, to the multinationals draining the country of its natural resources today [2004]." (NATION) The author relates her visit to Angola "to try to understand how a country so rich in the most coveted resource of our time--oil--can fall to the bottom of almost every scale of human development."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Africa's Oil Tycoons, April 12, 2004; pp. 11+.
"Twenty-seven years of civil war fueled by a lethal mix of oil, diamonds and cold war enemies have left one of Africa's potentially richest countries a shambles. Although its own kleptocratic leaders and homegrown revolutionaries deserve much of the blame, it's impossible to divorce what's happened from the constant manipulation of outsiders--from the Portuguese, who kept Angola under the thumb of colonial rule for 500 years, to the United States and white-led South Africa, which bankrolled Angola's rebels during the cold war, to the multinationals draining the country of its natural resources today [2004]." (NATION) The author relates her visit to Angola "to try to understand how a country so rich in the most coveted resource of our time--oil--can fall to the bottom of almost every scale of human development."
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