1st Edition
International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918
- The Third World and Nature of World Order
- From Latin America to Africa: Primitive Accumulation, the Modality of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Incorporation into the World Order
- People as Property: Atlantic Slave Trade, International Law and the Making of the New World
- Industrial Capitalism, Concepts of Improvement, and the Civilizing Mission Metaphor in Africa
- The Scramble for Africa: Non-State Actors and Acquisitions by Cession Treaties
- Public Law Arrangements: The Pursuit for Free Trade, the Berlin Conference 1884-85 and the Partition of Africa
- General Concluding Remarks
Biography
George Forji Amin is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, University of Manchester and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC), UK.
"This is an interesting book, and one of only a few to offer a historical approach to the study of Africa and the international legal order. George Forji Amin explores the complicity of international law in the economic stagnation of the continent by way of a historical account of resource extraction that draws from themes such as Third World approaches, postcolonialism, imperialism, property rights, historical materialism and slavery. [...] The book offers a rare example of how to paint a bigger picture, bringing together the role of international law, its processes and intellectual uses in Africa. It is a most welcome contribution."
P. Sean Morris, University of Helsinki, Finland, for International Affairs 100: 3, 2024
