Duncan Clarke founded Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm with a vintage of around 40 years. Since trading its assets in 2016, he been engaged in writing, with Rhodes' Ghost published July 2020. Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1948, with PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975, he has written for fifty years on Africa in published and unpublished formats, focused on economics, historiography, biography and corporate oil strategy.

The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry. -- Michael Holman, former Africa editor Financial Times If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent -- Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. -- Nicolas van de Walle Foreign Affairs Journal (USA) Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa. Barron's Magazine A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. Foreign Affairs.org

Duncan Clarke founded Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm with a vintage of around 40 years. Since trading its assets in 2016, he been engaged in writing, with Rhodes' Ghost published July 2020. Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1948, with PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975, he has written for fifty years on Africa in published and unpublished formats, focused on economics, historiography, biography and corporate oil strategy.

The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry. -- Michael Holman, former Africa editor Financial Times If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent -- Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. -- Nicolas van de Walle Foreign Affairs Journal (USA) Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa. Barron's Magazine A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. Foreign Affairs.org

Duncan Clarke founded Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm with a vintage of around 40 years. Since trading its assets in 2016, he been engaged in writing, with Rhodes' Ghost published July 2020. Born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1948, with PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975, he has written for fifty years on Africa in published and unpublished formats, focused on economics, historiography, biography and corporate oil strategy.

The journey with him around Africa is like being shown around the bush by a top safari guide, who offers an always brilliant and stimulating account of the natural world, forcing the listener to look afresh. Of all, he would be my guide, as he provides original analysis and passionate views, which are never dull and always thought-provoking, in a closely argued account informed by an unrivalled knowledge of Africa's oil industry. -- Michael Holman, former Africa editor Financial Times If I need to know anything about oil in Africa, I go straight to Crude Continent -- Richard Dowden, director, the Royal African Society A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. -- Nicolas van de Walle Foreign Affairs Journal (USA) Clarke's rich yet readable prose offers astute insights as it pulls back the curtain to reveal the political and economic realities now facing Africa. Barron's Magazine A remarkably complete and authoritative account of the oil industry in the region. Foreign Affairs.org