Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. Paul Burkhardt (Bloomberg) — Africa’s oil and gas boom is in jeopardy. The dash for resources that saw explorers invest billions of dollars to tap promising oilfields from Ghana on the west coast to Tanzania on the east, is stalling as the global drop in oil prices

For a while there it really seemed like alternative energy was going to save us all.  Some experiments produced phenominal results, the politicians were slowly coming around and a couple of massive oil spills had Big Oil reeling in the court of public opinion.  But here we are on the