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Article: Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment
- Article from:
- The International Journal of African Historical Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment. By Abiodun Alao. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester, N. Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 353; 1 map, 18 tables, 5 figures. $85.00 cloth.
Africa is home to some of the largest deposits of natural resources in the world. It is also the center of a disproportionate number of the globe's conflicts. Millions of people have been killed in these conflicts, millions more have become refugees or have been displaced within their own homelands, and women in particular have suffered "collateral damage" as rape is increasingly used as a weapon of war. What should be a blessing, then, is ...