Introduction / Francis N. Botchway -- Good governance and resource management in Africa / Rhuks Ako and Nilopur Uddin -- Dispute settlement and sustainable development of natural resources in Africa / Abba Kolo -- Resource exploitation and environmental justice in Africa : the Nigerian experience / Rhuks Ako -- Contractural arrangements for resource investment / Emmanuel Laryea -- "A conflict of interest" : a critical examination of artisanal/large-scale miner relations in sub-Saharan Arica / Gavin Hilson -- Mergers and acquisitions in resource industry : implications for Africa / Francis N. Botchway -- Fiscal regimes for natural resource extraction : implications for Africa's development / Evaristus Oshionebo -- Africa : from object to agent of socially responsible investment / Benjamin J. Richardson -- Evolution of international investment law and implications for Africa / Emmanuel Laryea -- Commodity agreements and markets / Billy Melo Araujo -- Regime theory and China : Africa economic relations : new ideas in old paradigms? / Francis N. Botchway -- The settlement of investor-state oil and gas disputes in Africa / Ibironke Odumosu -- The role of international criminal law in environmental protection / Regina Rauxloh -- Economic development and environmental protection in Africa : the constitutional, conventional and institutional contexts / David Dzidzornu.