چکیده:
This volume brings together specialist reflection on the hydropolitics of Africa. It is the outcome of a specialist meeting at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. Since that meeting which identified and emphasized the importance of hydropolitics on the African continent – a topic which has been greatly neglected within the policy literature and policy process – the South African utilities sector has been developing the plan of damming the Congo with the intention of exporting power to Southern Europe. The power shortages of Europe create a profitable market for African enterprise but they may very well do so at the consequence of depriving Africa of the electrical power which could furnish its development. The time is clearly ripe to reflect on the hydropolitics of Africa within the greater policy debate of African development.