The story about Africa’s oil being a resource curse or a blessing is a tired one.
Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania , Uganda together with the latest, Kenya have all discovered oil and gas in recent years, thrusting them into a crossroads between following the likes of diamond-rich Botswana into prosperity or the likes of Nigeria into over-dependence on oil.
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