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Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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Resource Conflict and Environmental Relations in Africa (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
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The book discusses the failure of many African governments in
providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the
citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources.
Unfortunately, in many African States, mineral resources are owned,
explored and marketed by the machinery of the state. The problem
arises when the masses begin to challenge state access and
ownership of resources that are domiciled within their ancestral
land, communities, and constituencies. Often the challenge and
resistance to state ownership of resources is generated by communal
or group sense of exploitation, negligence and widespread poverty
in the face of high resource endowment and waste by the government
officials. Paradoxically, in Niger Delta of Nigeria, as
discussed in the book, the state has unleashed unlimited might upon
all social groups and agitators, thereby leading to the increased
act of taking arms by such groups. When the informal resource
agitators succeed in arming themselves, they begin to demand social
and environmental justice, thereby leading to mass armed conflict
between them and the government security agencies. Sometimes, the
confrontation could be between them and other rival local resource
actors in the informal sector of their country’s economy bearing
in mind that the resources within their jurisdiction have become
the central determinant of national commonwealth.  It
is at that state of desperado to control access, extraction and
sale of natural resources in a State, by different armed groups
that the process of natural resources extraction qualifies as the
most visible cause of conflicts and crises around the African
continent that is the centrepiece of the book. This is quite
understandable given that mineral resource is a gift of nature; and
nature is that phenomenon that every human, group and nation claim
to represent, or, believe to represent them.
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