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Extractives Industry Law in Africa

  • The first text to deal exclusively with the underpinning legal and governance regimes on extractive investments in Africa
  • Provides a comparative analysis and overview of extractive industry law and governance institutions across Africa
  • Enables practitioners and students to understand the diverse approaches and distinctive risk points in extractive investments across Africa
  • Provides detailed information on the licensing requirements, participation contracts, legal and contractual risks, and due diligence tools for mitigating risks when investing in African regimes
  • Encompasses current topical issues, such as business and human rights, environmental justice, corporate social responsibility, corporate risk identification and management, as well as multi-stakeholder engagement and accommodation in extractive investments
  • Builds on older and more recent works in this area, which have provided either narrow or dated explorations of legal regimes for extractive investments in Africa

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introductory Context and Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 3-17
    3. Extractive Sector Infrastructure

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 55-83
  3. Legal Theories, Contracts and Fiscal Regimes on Extractives Investments in Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
    2. Ownership and Control of Extractive Resources

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 87-107
    3. Sources of Extractive Industry Law

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 109-144
    4. Regulatory Institutions

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 145-168
    5. Legal Rights and Interests in Resource Extraction

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 169-189
    6. Local Content and Product Mandating Requirements

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 233-266
  4. Legal and Business Risks in African Extractive Investments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
    2. Business, Human Rights and Corruption Risks

      • Damilola S. Olawuyi
      Pages 323-354

About this book

The book provides a systematic examination of the legal, fiscal and institutional frameworks for the commercial development of petroleum and solid mineral resources in Africa. First, it considers the values, assumptions, and guiding principles underpinning legislation and governance in Africa’s extractive sector. It then provides detailed and comparative evaluations of regulatory frameworks, pricing, local content, procurement, sales, and contractual arrangements across African extractive industries. Further, the book assesses how questions of business and human rights risks, accountability, corporate social responsibility, waste and pollution control, environmental justice, and participatory development have been addressed to date, and how they could be addressed better in the future. 
Enhancing readers’ understanding of the geography, sources and scope of extractive resources in Africa, the book explains how corporations can effectively identify, mitigate and prevent legal and business risks when investing in African extractive industries. Lastly, it discusses the innovative legal strategies and tools needed to achieve a sustainable and rights-based extractive industry.
Written in a user-friendly style, the book offers a valuable resource for corporations, investors, environmental and human rights administrators, advocates, policymakers, judges, international negotiators, government officials and consultants who advise on, or are interested in, petroleum and solid mineral investments in Africa. It also offers students and researchers an authoritative guidebook to the current state of extractive industry laws and institutions in Africa. Numerous examples of how international legal norms could be used to help revitalize the underlying legal and fiscal regimes in African extractive industries – to make them more robust, accountable, sustainable and rights-based – round out the coverage

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

    Damilola S. Olawuyi

About the author

Damilola S. Olawuyi is an Associate Professor of Law at HBKU Law School. He is also Chancellor’s Fellow and Director at the Institute for Oil, Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES Institute), Afe Babalola University, Nigeria.

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eBook USD 79.99
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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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