Task 1 Part A
Shell Oil Company globalization impacted the Ogoni culture in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (Unknown, UNPO, 2009). In 1956 Shell Oil Company, out of Britain found oil deposits and commenced drilling the Niger Delta (Unknown, UNPO, 2009). Before the oil industry globalization, the Ogoni culture had a culture of tradition expanding over 500 years. Furthermore, the Ogoni culture lived off the land, without repercussions from today’s modernization, laws and technology. The Ogoni culture along Niger Delta, had close-knit community, lasting traditions such as tribal rituals, mud hut villages, festivals, lifelong marriages within their tribe, planting and cultivating yams and cassava, and providing fish for their people. However, the oil …show more content…
The oil-producing countries throughout the world competed for top oil producer to monopolize the market before OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, put contingencies on the market (O 'Neill, Tom, 2007). Shell Oil Company drilled for oil in Nigeria in 1956, land untouched by machinery and vast quantities of oil deposit, began drilling intensively competing for top oil producer in the world. In summary, the Shell Oil Company influenced the collapse of the Ogoni culture by finding vast oil deposits and increasing the ability to reach top oil producer of the world (Unknown, Stakeholder Democracy Network, …show more content…
Although, the positive aspect created financial abundance for the Nigerian government, the rise above poverty to wealth, appeared as a financial blessing. Nevertheless, the ramifications negatively affected the Ogoni people and left them destitute (Adesina, Dr. Olubukola S. 2012). The Ogoni people lost their homes and villages split apart. What farmland uninhabited by the oil company, became polluted by oil spills, contaminated their waterways and killing fish. In conclusion, the Ogonis health, culture and tradition had a negative effect by the destruction created by the oil industry (Adesina, Dr. Olubukola S. 2012), (O 'Neill, Tom,
Shell Oil Company globalization impacted the Ogoni culture in the Niger Delta, Nigeria (Unknown, UNPO, 2009). In 1956 Shell Oil Company, out of Britain found oil deposits and commenced drilling the Niger Delta (Unknown, UNPO, 2009). Before the oil industry globalization, the Ogoni culture had a culture of tradition expanding over 500 years. Furthermore, the Ogoni culture lived off the land, without repercussions from today’s modernization, laws and technology. The Ogoni culture along Niger Delta, had close-knit community, lasting traditions such as tribal rituals, mud hut villages, festivals, lifelong marriages within their tribe, planting and cultivating yams and cassava, and providing fish for their people. However, the oil …show more content…
The oil-producing countries throughout the world competed for top oil producer to monopolize the market before OPEC, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, put contingencies on the market (O 'Neill, Tom, 2007). Shell Oil Company drilled for oil in Nigeria in 1956, land untouched by machinery and vast quantities of oil deposit, began drilling intensively competing for top oil producer in the world. In summary, the Shell Oil Company influenced the collapse of the Ogoni culture by finding vast oil deposits and increasing the ability to reach top oil producer of the world (Unknown, Stakeholder Democracy Network, …show more content…
Although, the positive aspect created financial abundance for the Nigerian government, the rise above poverty to wealth, appeared as a financial blessing. Nevertheless, the ramifications negatively affected the Ogoni people and left them destitute (Adesina, Dr. Olubukola S. 2012). The Ogoni people lost their homes and villages split apart. What farmland uninhabited by the oil company, became polluted by oil spills, contaminated their waterways and killing fish. In conclusion, the Ogonis health, culture and tradition had a negative effect by the destruction created by the oil industry (Adesina, Dr. Olubukola S. 2012), (O 'Neill, Tom,