EVERY trend has its cliches. Africa's growing resource wealth (see this week's Economist) is invariably called a "scramble". Publishers seem to find it impossible to put out a book on growing oil wealth and burgeoning mineral extraction in the once colonised continent without prominent reference the tussle, scurry, dogfight—choose your synonym—for Africa by European nations (which followed the Conference of Berlin in 1884-1885, which regulated trade and colonisation in Africa, is proving another increasingly popular reference point in academic literature). So here is your choice of scrambles (add your own egg):
The New Scramble for Africa by Padraig Carmody
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian
A New Scramble for Africa?: Imperialism, Investment and Development by Roger Southall and Henning Melber
The New Scramble for Africa by Guy Arnold
Scramble for Africa: Darfur—Intervention and the USA by Steven Fake and Kevin Funk
The Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century by Michael Power, Harry Stephan, Angus Fane Hervey, Raymond Steenkamp Fonseca
