Mining Africa ― Law, Environment, Society Anpolitics in Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Citing a dearth of multidisciplinary and multi-temporal perspectives which would otherwise provide holistic coverage of the issues, Nhemachena and Warikandwa critically examine, refine, and/or create theories and practices on mining on the Africa continent. Issues of mining and environment are examined from different disciplinary perspectives, such as law, archaeology, geography, sociology, African studies, anthropology, history, economics, development, security studies, politics, and human ecology. They explore mining and environmental ideas and practices in Africa from pre-colonial eras, and interrogate the ways ideas and practices can feed into contemporary debates on mining, environment, “modernity,” science and “tradition,” development, ecology, economics and transformation. The book proposes a shift from the free-market-based mining regulatory framework in Africa to a pan-African regulatory framework, because, while African mineral resources have been used to develop Western and Asian countries, Africans are left in chronic poverty. Even African graduates, who are supposed to drive transformation using the mining sector, are ill-equipped to provide African solutions to African problems since the mining education that Africans are given is Western, or recently Asian in content. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)