The first text to deal exclusively with the underpinning legal and governance regimes on extractives investments in Africa, cutting across petroleum and solid mineral sectors

Provides a comparative analysis and overview of extractive industry law and governance institutions across Africa, enabling students and practitioners 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 the limits of olderand most recent works in this area, which have provided either narrow, or dated, explorations of legal regimes on extractives investments in Africa