Re-Thinking Resource Governance for Sustainable Human Development in the face of a ‘New Scramble’ for Africa.

Academic inquiry into theoretical positions on sustainable development in Africa have risen to prominence in recent times.This paper questions the traditional paradigms of thought on Africa's underdevelopment.It advances novel perspectives in rethinking resource governance by suggesting that an Induced Cumulative Causative Theory is key to understanding the proverbial 'box' in which Africans have to think out of to re-invent resource governance.The paper makes the connect between historical colonial antecedents of foreign resource control with the present proxy control of the same resources as a key structure that needs reinventing in the face of the 'New scramble for Africa'.The paper suggests that depreciating global resources has put Africa in the crosshairs global imperial forces making the control of Africa's resources by Africans a nearimpossible task.Policymakers will face the task of reinventing Africa's engagement with International corporations who are at the forefront the 'New Scramble'.The paper recommends that the control of African resources should be placed at the centre of the discourse on confronting the 'new scramble'.