• Isaac Osuoka

Shell's so-called divestment from Nigeria’s Niger Delta is a calculated move to evade accountability, leaving behind both environmental and economic devastation.

• Adam Hanieh

Materially speaking, oil is simply a sticky, black goo. It doesn’t have any innate power separate from the kind of society we live in—capitalism.

• James Granelli
• Raíra Fróes

At Africa Energy Week, the language of resource sovereignty disguised a new form of climate denial that appropriates progressive rhetoric in service of fossil fuel companies.

• Sa’eed Husaini

When Africa’s richest man announced the construction of the continent’s largest crude oil refinery, many were hopeful. But Aliko Dangote has not saved Nigeria. The Nigerian Scam returns to the Africa Is a Country Podcast to explain why.

• Priyanka Naidoo
• Natalie Barefoot

Communities whose land is being targeted for exploration by oil and gas companies are increasingly using the courts. South Africa points to good lessons for social movements about allying with the law.

• Bruce Baigrie

Mexico is fighting to regain sovereignty over its energy future, and African Leftists would do well to look to it for some answers.

• Ilham Rawoot
• Daniel Ribeiro

Total is creating a social and economic disaster in Mozambique, consulting the same playbook it uses in Myanmar and Yemen where it extracts resources and silences communities.

• Corinna Jentzsch

A new and different state is necessary to manage the complex problems in the region, but is it possible under the current regime that has fed the conflict?

• Lee Wengraf

The current run on Africa’s oil resources has strong echoes with the continent’s colonial past. The global movement’s task is to not let corporations get away with it.

• Phoebe Holmes

Shell and its counterparts in the oil industry in Nigeria must accept responsibility for horrors that result from their quests for profit. Everything else is just PR.

• Lee Wengraf

No amount of clean technology, industrial growth or boosts to GDP will avert the economic and climate crises inextricable to profit-driven extraction.

• Camilla Houeland

Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.

• António Tomás

Angolan political authorities are not particularly interested in justice or tackling corruption. It is more about settling scores.

• Ramola Ramtohul

How an environmental catastrophe catalyzed major anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius.

• Omolade Adunbi

Lessons for Americans in the age of Black Lives Matter, from the Niger Delta’s long struggle for environmental justice.

• Omolade Adunbi

• Lion Summerbell

Those extracting value from the DRC's soil over last 20 years show they're willing to do anything—including 6 million deaths—to satisfy global commodity markets.

• Marta Tveit

• Boima Tucker

Carnival in Rio de Janeiro as a site for the politics of influence by one of Africa's most brutal dictatorships.

• Marissa Moorman

We ought to ask questions about Angola’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. But also about the history of Chevron, Exxon, and Conoco in the country.