‘So rich, and yet so poor’—that’s the juxtaposition most journalists turn to when they decide to report on the Democrati…
Tag: oil
The oil giants are coming to Tanzania
International oil giants are bearing down on East Africa. Off the coast of Tanzania, the discovery of 46.5 trillion cubi…
President Obiang and the Samba School
Last week, the countries formerly under the reign of the Catholic Kings celebrated their annual week of debaucherous rev…
Oil in the Angolan President’s Family: Keeping it Global
A few months late to this story, the Wall Street Journal published a piece last Wednesday entitled “Angola Wealth Fund i…
Documentary: Fuelling Poverty in Nigeria
Kicking off with an introduction from Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the short documentary Fuelling Poverty amounts to a v…
The world’s media watched (sort of) as Angola votes
The three most interesting things about the recent Angolan elections were: one, that we knew the result before election …
Goldman Sachs’s Angolan interests
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Cobalt International Energy, a Houston based company with investments in…
The Two Sudans
On July 6 2011, the world’s diplomatic elite flocked to one of the globe’s most underdeveloped regions to bask in the wa…
'The Oil Complex'
Video of a worthwhile lecture (recorded in February this year) by Berkeley geographer Michael Watts breaking down the wo…
The Cost of Oil to Nigeria
“Nigeria is the world’s 8th largest producer of crude oil, yet remains one of its poorest nations — an…