International Law and the History of Resource Extraction in Africa: Capital Accumulation and Underdevelopment, 1450-1918

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15th and 19th centuries and led to the continent’s trajectory of underdevelopment in the world system.

George Forji Amin is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, University of Manchester and an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Manchester International Law Centre (MILC), UK.