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Panford's book is recommended to all readers, including the secondary and tertiary youth. The ease of language without sacrificing technical details and relevant key terms offers much to aid the reader grasp what's going on with Ghana and Africa's bounty of resources: how Ghana's gas, for example, can be used to become a `socially transformative asset' ... . This book is recommended for adoption in other developing countries as part of a new and progressive education and curriculum ... . (Anis Haffar, Graphic Online, graphic.com.gh, May, 2017) Africa's Natural Resources and Underdevelopment: How Ghana's Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity Kwamina Panford examines the ways by which Ghana can minimize the associated negative ramifications of oil and gas extraction. ... an exciting, well written and easy to comprehend book that will be appreciated by policy makers, students and academics. (Austin Dziwornu Ablo, Geography Research Forum, raphael.geography.ad.bgu.ac.il, Vol. 37, 2017)

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Kwamina Panford is Associate Professor at Northeastern University, USA, where he was Chair of the Department of African American Studies, as well as Vice Provost. In 2015, he was a Senior Visiting Scholar with the Carnegie ""Next Generation of Academics in Africa"" project at the University of Ghana. Panford provided critical input to Ghana's Petroleum Revenue Management Act and was a key resource person for developing the curriculum for the new Institute of Oil and Gas Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. 

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