"Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas presents a case against the world's largest oil company, demonstrating how [in contrast to Shell's public profile] irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a people destitute. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full c…
"In 1995 the world was shocked by the news of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa - writer, political activist, and leader of the Niger Delta's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). Yet his summary execution by Nigeria's brutal military junta was only the latest horrifi…
"This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa's ruling classes to scientific and technological progress.".
This book examines the standard scholarly explanations of the cause of Africa's underdevelopment and argues that the traditional scholarly explanations - colonial and neo-colonial expropriation, racial assumptions, nor geographical theory - are plausible as the main cause of Afr…
This book examines the standard scholarly explanations of the cause of Africa's underdevelopment and argues that the traditional scholarly explanations - colonial and neo-colonial expropriation, racial assumptions, nor geographical theory - are plausible as the main cause of Afr…
The Failure of Leadership in Africa's Development examines the dominant scholarly theories about the cause of Africa's underdevelopment and argues that none of the traditionally invoked causes--an alleged black racial inferiority, the colonial and neo-colonial expropriation of A…
This book argues that the poverty and underdevelopment of Africa are the result of poor leadership, which is demonstrated in the historical indifference of a long succession of Africa's ruling classes to scientific and technological progress.