البترول في الدول الإفريقية : بين فرصة التنمية و نقمة التبعية و التخلف

Abstract EN

In this study, we will try to determine whether petroleum in Africa is an opportunity for development or a curse that forces its countries to enter into a vicious cycle of dependency and underdevelopment on the African continent.

First, we analyze the most important reasons why the African petroleum has become a curse, and a catalyst for underdevelopment and dependency, which results in a set of factors leading to the transformation of petroleum into elements of destabilization of African countries that are led by the distribution of petroleum revenues and their monopoly by a minority.

In conclusion, the most important solutions to prevent the curse of African petroleum must be adopted using a more equitable distribution of national income, in order to avoid the disintegration of the State, and maintain propitious stability to economic development.