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The scramble for African oil and other natural resources is striking in the way it reveals inequalities of power which push some people towards the abyss while others prosper. Such asymmetries of power are painfully evident in the World Bank-supported Chad-Cameroon Oil & Pipeline project. Here, an ExxonMobil-led consortium occupies the top end of the spectrum while the indigenous Bakola/Bagyeli people, whose traditional forest lands are traversed by the consortium’s oil pipeline, are at the extreme bottom.
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Horta, K. (2012). Public-Private Partnership and Institutional Capture: The State, International Institutions, and Indigenous Peoples in Chad and Cameroon. In: Sawyer, S., Gomez, E.T. (eds) The Politics of Resource Extraction. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230368798_10
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