A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier - Couverture rigide

Peel, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845119207 ISBN 13 : 9781845119201

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2009

Synopsis

Nigeria is a country where petroleum and polio have both boomed, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The crude-rich Niger Delta region at the heart of it all is a troublespot as hot as the local pepper soup. Through a host of characters, from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos to the civil war general with a penchant for 19th century British poetry, Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country and how it has been shaped by the oil that pumps through western cities. Weaving reportage, oral history and investigative journalism, Peel illustrates the dark side of the global oil economy, and the unseen consequences of reckless resource extraction.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Peel is a Financial Times journalist who has developed a fascination with west Africa, oil and financial crime especially when the three are combined. The genesis of A Swamp Full of Dollars was Peel's stint between 2002 and 2005 as the FT's west Africa correspondent, based in Lagos, Nigeria. He has since returned several times to the oil-rich region to research his book. Peel has been with the Financial Times since 1997. In 2000 he won a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust traveling fellowship to report on multinationals and the environment in Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and eastern India. Since 2006 Peel has been the FT's legal correspondent, covering, among other things, corporate corruption and other aspects of financial crime. His reporting from Africa has appeared in various publications, including The New Republic, the London Review of Books and Granta magazine.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1845119207
• ISBN 13: 9781845119201
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible