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In the first decade after the new Millennium, Africa has attracted global attention not least for the fast economic growth of some countries but mainly due to the continent being part of the resource frontier for the major global economies. Resource frontier, in this context can be conceptualized as a geographical imagination of spaces as full of resources but underutilized in terms of converting these spaces into productive resources.
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Debelo, A.R. (2021). The Political Economy of Africa’s Relations with China. In: Omeje, K. (eds) The Governance, Security and Development Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49348-6_5
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