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1. 1. Ibrahim Index of African Governance

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   Published on: 10/14/2007   Last Visited: 1/12/2008

   Michael Chege, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, and Advisor, International Development Policy, Ministry of Planning and Development (Kenya)

2. 2. www.southcentre.org

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   Published on: 7/27/2006   Last Visited: 3/13/2007

   Michael Chege is currently an Advisor to the Government of Kenya on International Development Partnerships.He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Research and Resource Forum (ARRF), an independent, non-profit, research, resource, reflection and discourse organization devoted to enhancing thinking on African development.Professor Chege holds a Ph.D in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles and is Associate Professor at the University of Florida where he served as the Director of the Center of African Studies from 1996 to the year 2002.In the years 1994 to 1996, Professor Chege was visiting scholar at Harvard University.He was also a visiting professor at the University of Geneva in 1982/83.Earlier, Professor Chege had served as Program Officer with the Ford Foundation based in Harare, Zimbabwe for six (6) years from 1988 to 1994.Before the assignment with the Ford Foundation, he was Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of Nairobi where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1980 - 1983.Professor Chege has received several academic awards including awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and Harvard University.Prof. Chege's publications include ‘Democratic Theory and Practice in Africa' (Edited with Afrifa Gitonga and Walter Oyugi in 1988) and several chapters in peer reviewed books as well as articles in international refereed journals.

3. 3. U.S. and Israel target West African oil

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   Published on: 8/16/2002   Last Visited: 8/16/2002

   "It's like these companies can own a platform, extract the oil, and then just send a check to the government," said Michael Chege, director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida.He fears that such arrangements will evolve into an "alliance between the ‘oilagarchy' and dictatorships" backed up by U.S. military power.
   
   Still, West Africa's share of the U.S. import oil market is expected to grow to 25 percent as early as 2015, as new technology makes it possible for companies to tap energy resources that were out of reach until now.
   
   In addition to Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville and Cameroon are already oil exporters, while Chad will come on line after the construction of a major pipeline by ExxonMobil.Oil companies are also actively exploring off the coasts of Namibia, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritania, and Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.
   
   "Last year, there were eight billion barrel finds of oil in the world: seven of those were off the coast of West Africa," says Rep.