This article examines resource nationalism in sub-Saharan Africa's energy and minerals
markets. It does so by exploring economic and political developments in three cases:
Nigeria as an example of a petro-state established by means of expropriation in the wake of
decolonisation; South Africa, a mature mining industry shaped by its settler colonial history;
and Mozambique, a new and therefore highly-dependent entrant into the league of
significant natural gas producers. Extractive industries have played a controversial role in …