Robert Amsterdam’s speech on corporate foreign policy in Helsinki, Finland.
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced yesterday.
The lawsuit accused Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the murders or persecution of other environmental activists by [...]
The beauty and indeed power of Bollywood has never been more prevalent than in recent months, with the smash-hit success of the film “Slumdog Millionaire“. Through the music of A.R. Rahman and the dazzling cinematography, one can only imagine the next big hit to come from an emerging economic and indeed cultural market.
However, there is [...]
Rule of law in Africa has always been a controversial issue to foreign investors looking to take steps in to emerging markets. The recent acts of piracy coordinated on the ground between Nigeria and Somalia are examples not only of a lack of domestic security but of the power of African inter-connectedness, even if it [...]
“If a continent is divided in to a patchwork of tiny countries, countries too small to have internalized key externalities, vital public goods will be missing.” - Paul Collier, Wars Guns and Votes
Infrastructure Reform - a critical platform for one running for elected office in Africa against the incumbent. Roads, schools, houses and yes, power [...]
Scholars, pundits and celebrities alike have long downplayed Africa’s growth, almost as though the continent itself were a mismanaged country, a sorry nation-state of affairs. Truth be told, there is significant, tangible change as a result of investment seen across the continent, change which is helping not only bring African citizens up to speed with the [...]
Last evening, the keynote speech of Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, CEO of Sogato Strategies Group at the Business and Investment Forum for Nigerian Governors was published, detailing Dr. Moghalu’s strategic approaches to foreign investment in Nigeria. Dr. Moghalu has some straightforward yet insightful applications for how foreign direct investment can be exponentially more beneficial to Nigeria [...]
It’s a familiar story, and I won’t be the first one to tell you. As documented widely, the rapid industrial rise of the BRIC economies has created an unexpected demand crush on natural resource commodities, generating all sorts of anomalies for foreign investors in extractive industries. We have seen resource nationalism issues pop [...]
This is my speech from the Houston World Affairs Council on May 19, 2008 - covering the comparative investment environments of Venezuela and Nigeria, the rise of state-owned energy companies, the decline of Washington’s soft power, and the new competition gap facing investors.
The year 1995 was very tragic for Nigeria: after years of starvation and exploitation, the ethnic minority in Ogoniland, an area rich in oil and gas, began mounting a peaceful civil society movement to demand a greater share of the oil wealth to fund infrastructure in their impoverished communities. Led by the political activist [...]
