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Introduction -- An enabling environment -- The blood oil business -- Nigerian attempts to tackle blood oil -- International attempts to tackle blood oil -- Recommendations for tackling blood oil.
Sean O'Hanlon, an Irishman arrives in Africa to accept a position as Head of Security to a local politician in the middle of the troubled and tumultuous Niger Delta region. He hopes to continue his relationship with the beautiful and exotic Kiente but soon finds matters are much more complex and deadly than he had at first been led to believe. Matters quickly escalate in a rip-roaring tumult of militant attacks, assassinations and kidnappings that threaten not just his life and that of Kiente but the peace of the very region itself.
Based on 30 years of fieldwork in the Niger Delta, this book debunks the determinism of the resource curse theory in Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer and the most populous country on the continent. It rather shows that oil and gas production is only one element of a social problem with much deeper roots. It also investigates the role played by the youth, a key issue in a society where half of the population is under 18 years old. To understand the multiple causes of the crisis, it thus delves into the complexity of a rich history.
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“The new generation of twenty-first-century African writers have now come of age. Without a doubt Habila is one of the best.”—Emmanuel Dongala In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, the wife of a British oil executive has been kidnapped. Two journalists—a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq—are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and cynical disillusionment in a journey full of danger and unintended consequences. As Rufus and Zaq navigate polluted rivers flanked by exploded and dormant oil wells, in search of “the white woman,” they must contend with the brutality of both government soldiers and militants. Assailed by irresolvable versions of the “truth” about the woman’s disappearance, dependent on the kindness of strangers of unknowable loyalties, their journalistic objectivity will prove unsustainable, but other values might yet salvage their human dignity.
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