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Africa: Crude Continent (Ebook)

The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize

One of the world's leading strategists on global oil exploration turns his critical eye to Africa's oil prize, to produce this definitive account of the issues and misunderstandings in Africa's oil and gas game.

Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a worldwide private advisory firm with vintage of around 40 years, the story told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. Born in Salisbury, 1948, and raised in Rhodesia, he gained the PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975. He has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to governments and companies worldwide, and focused on geo-economics, Africa and world oil, historiography, and corporate strategy for the global upstream industry. The most recent books, published by Royal Sable Publishing, founded by the author in 2019, have been The Quiet Rhodesian: Silent Servant, 1909-1981, published in 2023, and Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing, Africa and the World, in 2023, The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift, in 2022, and Rhodes' Ghost: The Conquest of Zambesia, in 2020. Another book, Cecil Rhodes' Library, will be released in early 2024, and Zambesia: The Literary Safari, in late 2024. Details on fifty years-plus of writing, travel and related endeavours are found on duncan-clarke.com.

Publication date: 23/07/2010

£13.99

ISBN: 9781847654557

ISBN 10 / ASIN: B0041G68N2

Imprint: Profile Books

Subject: Arts, Language & Literature, Current Affairs, Politics & Economics

Reviews for Africa: Crude Continent

'The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry.'

Michael Holman, former Africa editor Financial Times

'If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent'

Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society

'A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region.'

Nicolas van de Walle Foreign Affairs Journal (USA)

'Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa.'

Barron’s Magazine

'A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region.'

Foreign Affairs.org

Duncan Clarke

Duncan Clarke was born in Salisbury in 1948 and raised in Rhodesia. He gained a PhD in Economics from St Andrews in 1975 and has published extensively on Africa and geo-economics. He has published several books, including The House of Stone, Zambesia and Rhode's Ghost. He lives in Greece.