Where vultures feast : shell, human rights, and oil in the Niger Delta / Ike Okonta, Oronto Douglas.

By:

Okonta, Ike, 1949- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Douglas, Oronto [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2003Description: xii, 267 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1859844731
9781859844731

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

966.942 21

LOC classification:

HD9577.N53 N546 2003

Contents:

1. A People and Their Environment -- 2. Soldiers, Gangsters, and Oil -- 3. Colossus on the Niger -- 4. A Dying Land -- 5. Where Vultures Feast -- 6. Ambush in the Night -- 7. A Game for Spin Doctors -- 8. Healing the Wound -- App. Justice on Trial.

Review: "Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas presents a 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Originally published: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-259) and index.

"Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas presents a 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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