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From the Pit to the Market - Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone (Paperback)
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From the Pit to the Market - Politics and the Diamond Economy in Sierra Leone (Paperback)
Series: African Issues
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Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of
Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth,
excluding and marginalizing it from the club of wealthier nations,
and causing it to continue to rely on international aid. Diamonds
have played an important role in the political economy of Sierra
Leone, as was highlighted by the use of 'conflict' or 'blood'
diamonds in the decade-long civil war. Conflict diamonds were used
not only by rebels, military groups and others inside Sierra Leone
and Liberia, but also by groups extending beyond the borders of
West Africa: global criminal networks, international terror groups,
and 'legitimate' transnational companies. The diamond trade in
Sierra Leone has also been subject to exploitation by global
business interests, a form of corporate neo-colonialist predation
that continues today and which has curbed the country's growth,
while recent newspaper headlines also demonstrate the currency of
rough diamonds. Sierra Leone's diamonds have been used to finance
factions in Lebanon's civil war, criminal networks in the US and
Russia, and al-Qaeda. The marginalization and exclusion of Sierra
Leone, this book argues, mean that it, and other such resource-rich
nations, remain reliant on aid. Diane Frost is Lecturer in the
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University
of Liverpool
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