Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta - Couverture rigide

Okonta, Ike; Douglas, Oronto

 
9781578050468: Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
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ISBN 10 : 1578050464 ISBN 13 : 9781578050468
Editeur : Sierra Club Books, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Ike Okonta Oronto Douglas

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Présentation de l'éditeur

On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack.

A hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa—writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments and the giant multinational Royal Dutch Shell.

Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against the world’s largest oil company, demonstrating how (in contrast to Shell’s public profile) irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a people destitute. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full circle as crude oil has taken the place of palm oil, but the dramatis personae remain the same: a powerful multinational company bent on extracting the last drop of blood from the richly endowed Niger Delta, and a courageous people determined to resist.

Revue de presse

“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

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Éditeur
Sierra Club Books
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1578050464
ISBN 13 
9781578050468
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
267
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9781859844731: Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1859844731 ISBN 13 :  9781859844731
Editeur : Verso Books, 2003
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