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Title: | Ghana, China, and the politics of energy |
Author: | Rupp, Stephanie |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462) |
Volume: | 56 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 103-130 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ghana China |
Subjects: | energy energy policy energy resources international economic relations |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2013.8 |
Abstract: | Since the discovery of the Jubilee oil field in the Gulf of Guinea in 2007, Ghana has emerged as an oil-rich nation and emerging exporter of high-quality crude oil. Simultaneously the energy supplies available to Ghanaian citizens in everyday life have become increasingly unreliable, marked by persistent rolling blackouts. This article seeks to understand the complex relationship that has developed between Ghana and China, to illuminate Ghanaian perspectives on their energy needs, and to investigate how energy has become entangled in national politics and bilateral relations between Ghana and China. Its is based partly on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ghana during the summer of 2009.Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |