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This is my next non fiction book is this:::: It is endorsed by one of the best journalists in the oil Bizness in africa Barry Morgan... I have been passing it in Aberdeen airport for the past two years in tending to buy it.. so while I am away from home this time, I bought it. It is a good read started it and already a couple concepts suddenly dove tails into my own experience and observation..
Given my own experience with oil types in Africa and all over the world it makes a good change to know some background...
so far it reflects the complexities that is Africa and does not simply take the ground that oil bad, white bad, and its the evil oil empires raping... But then thats my biographical experience which I have long discovered has no relevance...
One concept I knew but did not articulate is in this books is the state of societal development.. In africa there exists multiple levels of development within one country from the stone age, to the medival, to the industrial and even postindustrial.. This is an interesting concept that is self evident... added on top of that is the identity of Africa.. ethnic, country, religion, language.. makes societies extremely complex..
I mean angola is a prime example.. multibillion investemnts with the most modern satalite systems with multiple ethnicities coexisting with Khoi in the south!
Too often only one of these multiple fascets of a country is veiwed and it gives a picture that may be true, but is not truth.
Still as you know I am too dumb to know and am a sell out, unconsious..dont have the statistics to back it up or the websites!
This is my next non fiction book is this:::: It is endorsed by one of the best journalists in the oil Bizness in africa Barry Morgan... I have been passing it in Aberdeen airport for the past two years in tending to buy it.. so while I am away from home this time, I bought it. It is a good read started it and already a couple concepts suddenly dove tails into my own experience and observation..
Given my own experience with oil types in Africa and all over the world it makes a good change to know some background...
so far it reflects the complexities that is Africa and does not simply take the ground that oil bad, white bad, and its the evil oil empires raping... But then thats my biographical experience which I have long discovered has no relevance...
One concept I knew but did not articulate is in this books is the state of societal development.. In africa there exists multiple levels of development within one country from the stone age, to the medival, to the industrial and even postindustrial.. This is an interesting concept that is self evident... added on top of that is the identity of Africa.. ethnic, country, religion, language.. makes societies extremely complex..
I mean angola is a prime example.. multibillion investemnts with the most modern satalite systems with multiple ethnicities coexisting with Khoi in the south!
Too often only one of these multiple fascets of a country is veiwed and it gives a picture that may be true, but is not truth.
Still as you know I am too dumb to know and am a sell out, unconsious..dont have the statistics to back it up or the websites!