Add to ORKGStarting from a 2019 photo of the Benguela Railway, I tell the story of how the Angolan government, with Chinese oil-backed loans and construction expertise, sought to revitalise the colonial-era railway link from the Atlantic port of Lobito to the mining areas of Katanga and Zambia. This dream and its seeming failure in a context of economic crisis brought on by the 2014 commodity slump, reveals the limits to Angola's oil-fuelled reconstruction drive. At the same time it allows us to chart how the cyclical ups and downs of the global economy have impacted Angola's insertion into extractive capitalism, and how colonial-era ideals of professionalism and civilisedness reverberate in contemporary projects of self-making
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacu...
The post-war transition in Angola has involved small shifts in strategies of elite accumulation to m...
Case histories describes the joint attempt of Tanzania and Zambia to escape from the supranational n...
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual dono...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
Fueled by a massive offshore deep-water oil boom, Angola has since the end of war in 2002 undertaken...
China‟s relations with African countries represent a growing trend in international relations and So...
The Sub-Saharan Africa belongs to the most underdeveloped regions in the world economy. This region ...
It is now thirty years since the liberation of Angola from colonialism. For nearly all of that time ...
Angola is one of Africaâs most established petro-states, with initial forays into the countryâs oil ...
Angola is one of Africa’s most established petro-states, with initial forays into the country’s oil ...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of the Benguela Railway (CFB) for Angola’s ...
Following the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola entered a period of political stability and econo...
Following the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola entered a period of political stability and econo...
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacu...
The post-war transition in Angola has involved small shifts in strategies of elite accumulation to m...
Case histories describes the joint attempt of Tanzania and Zambia to escape from the supranational n...
Thanks to oil revenues, since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has largely eschewed the usual dono...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
Oil and diamond money are at the same time the biggest economic opportunity for Angola as well as be...
Fueled by a massive offshore deep-water oil boom, Angola has since the end of war in 2002 undertaken...
China‟s relations with African countries represent a growing trend in international relations and So...
The Sub-Saharan Africa belongs to the most underdeveloped regions in the world economy. This region ...
It is now thirty years since the liberation of Angola from colonialism. For nearly all of that time ...
Angola is one of Africaâs most established petro-states, with initial forays into the countryâs oil ...
Angola is one of Africa’s most established petro-states, with initial forays into the country’s oil ...
The objective of this paper is to analyze the importance of the Benguela Railway (CFB) for Angola’s ...
Following the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola entered a period of political stability and econo...
Following the end of the civil war in 2002, Angola entered a period of political stability and econo...
After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacu...
The post-war transition in Angola has involved small shifts in strategies of elite accumulation to m...
Case histories describes the joint attempt of Tanzania and Zambia to escape from the supranational n...