Black Gold of the Sun
Title | Black Gold of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Ekow Eshun |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307425010 |
At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these vibrant contemporary worlds.
Curse of the Black Gold
Title | Curse of the Black Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Watts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world and one of the major suppliers of oil to the US. Set against a backdrop of what has been called the scramble for African oil, this text documents the consequences of a half-century of oil exploitation and production in one of the world's foremost centres of biodiversity.
Gold of Africa
Title | Gold of Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy F. Garrard |
Publisher | Te Neues Publishing Company |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |
Black Gold in Africa
Title | Black Gold in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | African Bibliographic Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Industries |
ISBN |
African Gold
Title | African Gold PDF eBook |
Author | Roman Grynberg |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2021-04-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 303065995X |
The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent. The growth of gold as an increasingly important and diverse source of African wealth is examined, alongside the impact that the rise of China in the 21st century has had on the demand for gold. The volatility of the gold price has increased as a result of the dramatic decline of gold demand for manufacturing purposes. Gold is Africa’s second largest export after oil and is a perfect metaphor for a continent rich in resources while so much of its population lives in such dire poverty. The artisanal and small scale gold mining (ASGM) sector, is surprisingly widely perceived as being beneficial to the development of Africa despite its exploitation and dreadful health and environmental consequences. African Gold: Production, Trade and Economic Development considers policy issues regarding the gold mining sector, the economics of beneficiation, the retreat of jewelry manufacturing across the continent as well as ‘Africa’s golden future’. It is a relevant book for both academics and policymakers interested in Africa, natural resource, and development economics.
A Ritual Geology
Title | A Ritual Geology PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn d'Avignon |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2022-07-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478023074 |
Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Title | Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 069118268X |
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.