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Based on thirty years in the global oil game, intimate knowledge of African history and direct experience of over forty countries, this comprehensive book shows that Africa's flaws are not the whole story Duncan Clarke begins by placing African oil issues in historical context before tackling issues of power, nationalism and different parties strategies for control that have led to today's oil game. This book is the ultimate reference work on oil in Africa - which is vital to everyone's future around the world.

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'If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent' Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society. 'A must read antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity. Effectively undermines the validity of the theory of Peak Oil and comprehensively demolishes the arguments of its proponents.' Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Energy Praise for Empires of Oil: 'If you read just one book on oil this year let it be by Duncan Clarke' Financial Times

'A must read antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity. Effectively undermines the validity of the theory of Peak Oil and comprehensively demolishes the arguments of its proponents.' Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Energy Praise for Empires of Oil: 'If you read just one book on oil this year let it be by Duncan Clarke' Financial Times

"""'If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent'"" Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society. ""'A ""must read"" antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity. Effectively undermines the validity of the theory of Peak Oil and comprehensively demolishes the arguments of its proponents.' Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus of International Energy Praise for Empires of Oil: 'If you read just one book on oil this year let it be by Duncan Clarke' Financial Times"""

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Duncan Clarke is a leading thinker, writer and speaker on corporate strategy and geopolitical issues in the oil industry. Chairman and CEO of Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm operating partly from London and Johannesburg, he was an economist and advisor before establishing GP&P, with a focus on strategy in the worldwide upstream industry. Profile published his book The Battle for Barrels in February 2007 and Empires of Oil in September 2007.

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