It took me a while to process Ian’s passing. I still cannot believe he is not around. I am not going to write about the renowned scholar Professor Taylor, whose academic accomplishments we all know…
Why Is It Taking So Long? Solving the…
Polus, A., and W. Tycholiz. 2016. ‘Why Is It Taking So Long? Solving the Oil Extraction Equation in Uganda." African and Asian Studies 15(1): 77–97. https://doi.org/10.1163/15692108-12341357 Abstract During the past decade, Uganda has become one…
Norwegian inspirations in the Ugandan oil revenue management
The main purpose of the research is to answer the question whether Uganda as a second generation petro-state can avoid oil resource curse phenomenon. Research hypothesis states that African countries where oil has been discovered in…
Namibia: Ready or not for oil?
The main purpose of the research is to answer the question if Namibia as a second generation petro-state can avoid oil resource curse phenomenon. Research hypothesis states that African countries where oil has been discovered…
Ready or Not: Namibia as a Potentially Succesful…
The primary objective of this paper is to assess whether Namibia is ready to become an oil producer. The geological estimates suggest that the country may possess the equivalent of as many as 11 billion…
New friends, old friends? The World Bank and…
With China increasing its financing of Africa's development, roles have shifted and new roles are being assigned. The World Bank, having been for many years a prime and essentially unchallenged financier of Africa's development, is…
Resource curse or resource disease? The case study…
The main objective of the project was to investigate the impact of discovery and exploration of oil on the economic development of countries classified as the second generation of the African petro-states. The most recent…
Aborne
ABORNE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa. The emphasis is largely on borderlands as physical spaces and social spheres, but the network is…
Contextualising Chinese engagement in Africa
In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction…