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This Week’s NonFiction Book:
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
by John Ghazvinian
Although
Africa has long
been known to
be rich in oil,
extracting it
hadn’t seemed
worth the
effort and risk
until recently.
But with the
price of Middle
Eastern crude
oil
skyrocketing
and advancing
technology
making reserves
easier to tap,
the region has
become the
scene of a
competition
between major
powers that
recalls the
nineteenth-century
scramble for
colonization
there. Already
the United
States imports
more of its oil
from Africa
than from Saudi
Arabia, and
China, too,
looks to the
continent for
its energy
security.
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