Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable development in Resource-Rich Countries in Africa
A Worker of First Quantum Mine in Akjoujt, Mauritania During the last decades, most of the major International oil and mining companies have rushed to Africa to look for new extractive opportunities. Shell, an American oil company, has been interested to develop the huge petroleum resources in the Niger Delta in Nigeria; Areva, a French mining company, installed in Niger, became one of the biggest uranium producers in the world; Tullow, a British oil company, is present in the petroleum sector of most of the African countries. The abundance of resources coupled with the growing economic liberalization in the developing countries has led many International Mining Companies (IMCs) to be interested in investing in Africa. In order to manage the expectations of the different stakeholders, mainly the local communities and the work-force, the IMCs introduced a new concept called Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). At the beginning, it seemed obvious for most of the stakeholders ...