The existing books on frontier oil economies in Africa cover four main themes, providing information about the nature of the resource sector, seeking to explain the social conditions of people in oil economies by using or problematising the resource curse thesis, assessing to what extent oil is transforming national economies and how such macro forces interact with micro, urban and regional processes, and detailing strategies on how best to invest oil revenues or structure the oil industry. It is within such frameworks that books such as Oil, Democracy, and Development (Heilbrun, 2015) and Governance of the Petroleum Sector in an Emerging Developing Economy (Appiah-Adu, 2013), Oiling the Urban Economy: Land, Labour, Capital and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana (Obeng-Odoom, 2014); and Africa’s Natural Resources and Underdevelopment: How Ghana’s Petroleum Can Create Sustainable Economic Prosperity (Panford, 2017) have been published.

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