Where Vultures Feast – Shell, Human Rights, & Oil in the Niger Delta - Hardcover

Okonta, Ike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578050464 ISBN 13: 9781578050468

Publisher: University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

Since Royal Dutch Shell first struck oil in the Niger Delta in 1956, the environment and economy of the country have been in steady decline. The authors, a Nigerian journalist and lawyer, document the Nigerian people's struggle against the exploitation and destruction of their land and culture by Royal Dutch Shell and a series of corrupt Nigerian governments. Okonto was part of the editorial team that founded Tempo , an underground newspaper in Nigeria. He is presently at St. Peter's College, England. Douglas is Nigeria's leading environmental human rights lawyer. He is deputy director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth in Nigeria. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Review

Okonta and Douglas provide a vivid and relentless account of human tragedy since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in 1956.

This passionate book should be read by all those interested in the links between oil and oppression. The authors, both from Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta, bring equal depth of knowledge and outrage at the injustices wrought against their homeland by Nigeria's governments--colonial, military and civilian--and by the oil companies, first among them Shell. --Bronwen Manby

"Okonta and Douglas provide a vivid and relentless account of human tragedy since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in 1956."--Carl Hand

"This passionate book should be read by all those interested in the links between oil and oppression. The authors, both from Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta, bring equal depth of knowledge and outrage at the injustices wrought against their homeland by Nigeria's governments--colonial, military and civilian--and by the oil companies, first among them Shell."--Bronwen Manby

Okonta and Douglas provide a vivid and relentless account of human tragedy since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in 1956. Carl Hand
This passionate book should be read by all those interested in the links between oil and oppression. The authors, both from Nigeria s oil producing Niger Delta, bring equal depth of knowledge and outrage at the injustices wrought against their homeland by Nigeria s governments colonial, military and civilian and by the oil companies, first among them Shell. Bronwen Manby"

About the Author

Ike Okonta is a writer and journalist. His first collection of short stories, The Expert Hunter of Rats, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize in 1998. Oronto Douglas is Nigeria's leading human rights lawyer and was a member of the legal team that represented Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578050464
• ISBN 13: 9781578050468
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 286