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A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development
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Price: R 175
Publication Date: 2009-05-27
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 978 1 86914 171 4
Width: 170
Height: 240
Pages: 544


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Dramatically escalating prices of raw materials, driven by rapid industrialisation in China and other countries of the global South as well as by looming world shortages, had for the few years preceding the financial meltdown and global recession of 2009 promoted a new scramble for Africa’s natural resources.

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A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development, Roger Southall and Henning Melber, eds. (South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009), 440p.


Reviewed by Ioannis Mantzikos, Researcher, University of Peloponnese.

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Review by Peter Limb
Michigan State University

ABPR XXXVI No. 2

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Review by Alex Benkenstein
South African Institute of International Affairs
Email: alex.benkenstein@saiia.org.za
© 2011 Alex Benkenstein

South African Journal of International Affairs,Volume 18, Issue 2, 2011
Special Issue: International Organisation Interplay in Africa

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Review by Dinah Rajak
University of Sussex
Journal of Modern African Studies, vol 50, no 1, 2012

The opening statement of A New Scramble for Africa informs us that at the start of this millennium, ‘something big was happening in Africa’. Yet this book looks as much to the past, to a history of extraction, exploitation and empire on the continent, as it does to the present, or future. Through every chapter, the enduring phrase of Max Gluckman and the Rhodes-Livingstone anthropologists resonates strongly: continuity and change. Taking this temporal framework as a heuristic device, the book as a whole provides an important theoretical and historical overview to current processes of investment and resource extraction in Africa.

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Dramatically escalating prices of raw materials, driven by rapid industrialisation in China and other countries of the global South as well as by looming world shortages, had for the few years preceding the financial meltdown and global recession of 2009 promoted a new scramble for Africa’s natural resources.

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