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There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resourcebased development. Natural ResourceBased Development in Africa places a particular emphasis on the actors that help us understand the extent to which resources could be transformed into broader developmental outcomes. Based on a wide variety of primary sources and fieldwork, including in-person interviews and participant observations, this collection contributes to both scholarly and policy discussions around the governance and economic development roles of local entrepreneurs, transnational firms, civil society groups, local communities, and government agencies in Africa's natural resource sectors. Natural ResourceBased Development in Africa explores the impact that these actors have on regional trends such as resource nationalism and local procurement policies as well as grassroots-related issues such as poverty, livelihoods, gender equity, development, and human security.

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Africa's developmental outcomes depend a great deal on the governance of its natural resources. Moving beyond the headlines of a resource-cursed continent, this impressive volume explains the crucial importance of local contexts, Indigenous participation, multi-stakeholder mechanisms, and new forms of resource nationalism to advance more inclusive and sustainable resource-based development. - Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Department of Geography and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia This book is a must-read for anyone interested in natural resource-based development in Africa. In addition to discussing contemporary issues such as the resource curse, global governance, and sustainable development, it places a needed emphasis on the community and local levels, drawing on recent fieldwork across several African countries. - Yiagadeesen Samy, Professor and Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University This is a tremendously rich and nuanced collection of case studies that highlights the complexity of natural resource-based development in Africa. Foregrounding the entanglements of the global and the local, it is an important contribution to both academic and policy debates. - Rita Abrahamsen, Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa

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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.

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