Drilling past the resource curse?
Subtitle: essays on the governance of extractives in Kenya
By: J. Osogo Ambani (ed)
Publisher: Strathmore University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Nairobi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789966054210
Subjects: Mineral industries; Government policy
Description: "The discovery and eventual extraction of natural resources often tests Africa's social and political institutions to the limits, including the levels of subservience to the law, government accountability to the people, and citizen participation in governance. The fact that natural resources in Africa are often discovered in areas with less government penetration or regions that have experienced historical marginalisation such as those inhabited by special groups like indigenous peoples and pastoralists only serves to worsen an already pathetic situation. The problem is often further exacerbated by the unhealthy collaboration between the mostly greedy government officials - expected to facilitate the realisation of the people's well-being - and the profit-motivated multi-national organisations involved in prospecting or mining. In the end, peoples' dignity is undermined, returns on investment are wasted, property rights suffer, and the environment is polluted. At the very core is usually a failed legal and political dispensation that is hostile to the people, the rule of law, good governance and human rights. Agains this backdrop, this book proceeds from four key hypotheses, that: i) all the major governance challenges that usually bedevil the discovery of natural resources in Africa are already operating in Kenya's budding extractives sector; ii) the existence of these problems in spite of a very progressive constitutional and legistlative framework, points to hurdles beyond the law; iii) that is, failure to harness the State for the good of the ordinary person, a culture of impunity, greed, and disregard for the rule of law, iv) which is a dangerous scenario, going by the general African story"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204).
Table of contents: title: Drilling past the resource curse? An introduction to the concept of 'mis-rule penalty' and the book  -- J Osogo Ambani; title: Titanium mining benefit-sharing in Kwale County: a comprehensive analysis of the law and practice  -- Nicholas Wasonga Orago and Pauline Vata Musangi; title: Case studies of revenue-sharing models: what Kenya can learn from other countries  -- Katindi Sivi-Njonjo; title: Access to information and its role in ensuring good governance in Kenya's extractives industry  -- Beverline Anyango Ongaro and Anne Watare Nderi; title: Land rights issues in Kenya's extractives sector  -- Francis Kariuki; title: Environmental implications of the extractives sector in Kenya: challenges and way forward -- Collins Odote.