This 'new scramble for Africa' provides an excellent overview of the current development and exploitation of Africa's resources showing how African development is defined by the 'paradox of plenty'. This collection is a must for scholars interested in understanding processes of resource grabbing in Africa from colonial times until now, illustrating the variety of forms it has taken and unrevelaing the various root causes. Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University Follow the money is a key message of Carmody's supercharged analysis of the new competitive scramble for Africa's petroleum and minerals, for its timber, even for its food crops. Few have so well exposed the mechanisms and consequences of this avarice, and particularly of China's all-encompassing shaping of Africa's dynamic future. Carmody is a very reliable guide and his second edition is even more definitive than the first. Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard University