Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne (Institut f?r Afrikanistik), course: Konfliktherd Nigeria, language: English, abstract: Mineral wealth and concomitant phenomena of violence state weakness and corruption have been widely brought into contact by numerous scholars, as a considerable number of empirical cases seem to give evidence to this. Particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa the...