Search Recent Articles What Resorts In The Dominican Republic Are Like Cap Juluca In AnguillaA Catalogue Of Latin American Flat Maps 19261964 Volume II South America Falkland Malvinas Islands And The Guianas How Long Does It Take Bermuda Grass To Grow Snow Queen Part 1 Paraguay Guarani Music If David Duke Wants Segregation Why Did He Try To Put A White Government In The Black Country Of Dominica Editable Comoros Powerpoint Map Comoros Powerpoint Template Life After Violence A Peoples Story Of Burundi African Arguments Other Blogs Travellers BagThe Vacation Blog Vacation Blog Travel Globes Travel Longer Vacation Advertiser Awful Vacation Travel Store Small Travels Vacation Overstock Vacation Shop Tags Abu DhabiAeroflot Afganistan Air Deccan Airfare Airline Tickets Algeria Angola Anguilla Antigua And Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Bahamas Barbados Bed And Breakfast Belize Benin Bermuda Boats For Sale Bolivia Bora Bora Botswana Brazil Bristol Airport British Virgin Islands Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Cheap Airfare Cheap Airline Tickets Cheap Cruises Cheap Flights Cheap Hotels Cheapflights Chile Colombia Comoros Concert Tickets Congo (Brazzaville) Congo, Democratic Republic Of The Costa Rica Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Cruise Lines Cruises Cuba Disney Cruise Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Malvinas) Flight Simulator Flights French Guiana Gabon Gambia Ghana Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hostel Jamaica Kenya Las Vegas Hotels Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya London Hotels Luggage Madagascar Malawi Mali Manchester Airport Map Quest Driving Directions Marbella Marc Jacobs Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Monserrat Morroco Mozambique Mykonos Namibia Netherlands Antilles Niagara Falls Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Panama Paraguay Pattaya Peru Plane Tickets Puerto Rico Reading Festival Reunion Route Planner Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Lucia Saint Pierre And Miquelon Saint Vincent And The Grenadines Sao Tome And Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa St. Kitts And Nevis Sudan Sunwing Suriname Swaziland Tanzania, United Republic Of Togo Train Tickets Travel Insurance Trinidad And Tobago Tunisia Turks And Caicos Islands Uganda United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands (US) Western Sahara Yatra Zambia Zimbabwe | Marketplace | Angola The Anatomy Of An Oil State African IssuesPosted on June 18, 2011.  Praise for The First Edition, Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism: "While interpretations MOST Of The situation in Angola APPROVED country thats the sufferer from deep divisions That Will not Be Easily Overcome, FEW analysts Have Been Able to satisfactorily explain Why One Of The Richest Countries in Africa Potentially Should Be in Such A wretched state. Tony Hodges's book Is the first to link together analytically Various The Economic and Political Strands That Must Be Examined in order to Provide a plausible account of Angola's post-colonial tragedy. " - Patrick Chabal, International Affairs "... A brief account of how a state run by Marxist oz poets, men of high ideals, has Turned Into Another Nigeria." - Times Literary Supplement "A veteran out of Angola, Hodges covers The Whole appalling mess with notable detachment." - Foreign Affairs Updated and revised followings The Death of Jonas Savimbi and UNITA The removal Of The rebels, this new edition using prospective discussion for Angola's oil wealth to End the country's staggering Poverty, Illiteracy rising, and Increasing Child Mortality. CommentsNikia Verzi says... In "Angola: The Anatomy of an Oil State," Anthony Hodges, describes, with exquisite detail, the rough transition to a Petro-Diamond economy in the worn-torn nation of Angola since the initiation of several peace agreements spanning the last decade. The book is a new edition of Hodges' 2001 text under a different title, "Angola: From Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism."The newer title is much more suitable as the previous title gave the impression that the history of the Marxist state of Augustino Neto is broadly covered, which it is not.The background history of Angola, for the most part, is summarized as Hodges focuses mainly on the last two decades of economic development.There are numerous tables and graphs, the text is well annotated, and it includes an excellent bibliography on the nation of Angola. The book reads like a non-governmental organization policy paper at times, but I personally adore a dry style that dispenses with any distracting nuances. Several recent developments make this book a must-read for any students of economics and development in Africa. 1) Offshore petroleum and natural gas drilling, especially Ultra-Deep technologies, have rapidly increased off the Atlantic coast.Angola has pressed the corporations involved for a greater share in the development of its welfare infrastructure.Many of these corporations, notably Exxon-Mobile and BP, have agreed to develop the physical infrastructure, but have hesitated providing the manpower (doctors, nurses, teachers, etc.) necessary to staff these enterprises. 2) De Beers, the massive diamond corporation, has recently agreed to form a new diamond mining venture with the Angolan firm Endiama after having been forced out in 2001.Hodges' work in Angola: The Antomy of an Oil State, gives the proper history and context to understand these events. Anthony Hodges was educated in economics at Oxford. As an associate at the Oxford Policy Management, Hodges specializes in the the post-colonial economies of Lusophonic Africa. He is currently at work advising the Department of Planning and Finance in the Republic of Mozambique. Posted on June 19, 2011 Micah Dempsy says... Mr. Maier provides a basic education on the Angolan civil war of the 90's and the circumstances under which it came it be.He has done an admirable job of coupling historical fact and his own experiences into a easily readable memoir of less than 300 pages.However, it would be unfair to the author to compare his writing to that of Rysczard Kapuczinski who's writings about Africa are presented in a style which is closer to poetry than non-fiction. I may have just got a bad copy, but it was all I could do to keep the book from disentigrating before I could finish reading it.Every time I opened it 2 or 3 pages would pop out of the binding......... Finally, I would like to put a caution out to the potential reader.Please be aware that I do not have the book in front of me at this time and the following quote may not be exact but I promise it is real close.In the closing pages of the book Mr. Maier writes (for reasons that I cannot remember) " the US's failed attempts to impose their new world order on Mogadishu"..........and that was it....no mention of starving people...the UN...or warlords using food as tools of power.Clearly, Mr. Maier is entitled to his views and I would never condemn this well written book for a single misguided statement, but the reader is left wondering if the author may have left other vital pieces of info out of this book in order to further his political agenda. Posted on June 20, 2011 Pura Dobosh says... While this is a better book than "This House Has Fallen" the author's most recent book about Nigeria, it suffers from the same problem of being a series of frequently random encounters with the country in question and the events in it over a period of several years.There is some attempt to give the readers a more structured understanding of the historical and political background, but at the end of the day it is a series of points on a timeline as experienced by the author.His experiences are very interesting, and he is a thoughtful and observant writer who feels an admirable degree of passion for those suffering from the ongoing conflict. Posted on June 23, 2011 Leave a Comment |
