This book examines how state actors and other stakeholders participate in natural resource governance initiatives and seek to promote natural resource-based development in Africa.

Nathan Andrews is an associate professor of international relations at McMaster University.
Grant J. Andrew :

J. Andrew Grant is an associate professor of political studies at Queen’s University.
Ovadia Jesse Salah :

Jesse Salah Ovadia is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.

"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in natural resource–based development in Africa. In addition to discussing contemporary issues such as the resource curse, global governance, and sustainable development, it places a needed emphasis on the community and local levels, drawing on recent fieldwork across several African countries."

Rita Abrahamsen, Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa :

"This is a tremendously rich and nuanced collection of case studies that highlights the complexity of natural resource–based development in Africa. Foregrounding the entanglements of the global and the local, it is an important contribution to both academic and policy debates."

Philippe Le Billon, Professor, Department of Geography and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia:

"Africa’s developmental outcomes depend a great deal on the governance of its natural resources. Moving beyond the headlines of a resource-cursed continent, this impressive volume explains the crucial importance of local contexts, Indigenous participation, multi-stakeholder mechanisms, and new forms of resource nationalism to advance more inclusive and sustainable resource-based development."