1st Edition

Recolonizing Africa An Ethnography of Land Acquisition, Mining, and Resource Control

By Mariam Mniga Copyright 2024
218 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Received an honorable mention at the Wallerstein Memorial Book Awards  Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping Africa poor and dependent, this book explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the New Scramble for Africa. Green technology and... Read more

Foreword by Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba

1. The New Scramble for Africa
2. Resisting the New Colonialism
3. Land Individualism as a Foreign Concept
4. Resource Racism
5. Systemic Deception and Corporate Scandals
6. Women in the New Scramble for Africa
7. FDI Hinders African Development
8. Resource Justice

Biography

Mariam Mniga is a visiting scholar at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, where she earned her Ph.D. She has been an Associate Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for African Studies and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and George Mason University Korea. She was co-editor of the two-volume Women, War, and Violence: Topography, Resistance and Hope (2015) and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and encyclopedias. Dr. Mniga is also an experienced journalist and has lectured at universities in China, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States.