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Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil

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Although Africa has long been known to be wealthy in oil, extracting it hadn’t gave the impression definitely worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the cost of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has turn out to be the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble for colonization there. But what does this giddy new oil boom mean—for The us, for the world, for Africans themselves?John Ghazvinian traveled through twelve African countries—from Sudan to Congo to Angola—talking to warlords, industry executives, bandits, activists, priests, missionaries, oil-rig workers, scientists, and strange people whose lives have been transformed—not necessarily for the simpler—by the riches beneath their feet. The result’s a high-octane narrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons for despair, and reasons for hope emerging from some of the world’s energy hot spots.

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