Conflict in the Niger Delta

in the oil bearing communities of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. These projects…

until 1953 when shell D`Arcy surfaced under the flags of Great Britain and the Netherlands. Initially, shell D`Arcy commenced crude oil activities in the Eastern region of Nigeria and is one of the biggest oil producing companies today in the Niger Delta though with a different name shell petroleum Development Company of Nigeria…

Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow Introduction African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of,…

local economy. Despite of the excellence of Shell becoming as one of the world’s largest oil producer, there are conflicts and controversy that overlooked, which of these things not only affect the community, but, kept to a violation of human rights. Human rights abuses against the Ogoni people: Military dictatorship. Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has started oil production in the Niger Delta…

communities through void promises, sowing the eternal seed of destruction through the media. As a result, lack of jobs, create prospect for the moral decay and lawlessness. The immediate consequences divide families and communities, thereby engendering conflict. Zilayefa confronts her mother as she desires to go to town, Port Harcourt because of lack of engagement in the village. This orchestrated encounter extends to the youths and women in the community who antagonize the leadership of their…

The exploration of oil in Nigeria began on June 5 1956 after Shell-BP struck ‘black gold’ during a drilling expedition in Oloibiri, Bayelsa State in the Niger Delta region. Over the years, the Nigerian economy has become highly dependent on the exportation of oil as its main source of foreign exchange. Between 1972 and 2013, oil rents were averaged to account for 25 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (World Development Indicators). Fuel exports as a percentage of Nigeria’s…

for the Niger Delta — with a popular consciousness of the longue durée of the region’s incorporation into a world market. Nigeria has been part of global markets for 500 years, a history captured in Bonny Island itself which links Bonny to the Atlantic Ocean. A century ago those tankers would have been steamships coming for palm oil, which was critical for lubricants and soaps in an emerging industrial economy. From the mid-19th century throughout the colonial period, the Niger Delta was the…

Third Written Report This section of Reframing Contemporary Africa by Peyi Soyinka – Airewele and Rita Kiki Edozie looks at external and internal factors were affecting the African nation. In ‘The New Oil Gulf of Africa: Global Geopolitics and Enclave Oil Producing Economies” by Okbazghi Yohannes looks at the participating of Africa in the world economy and how resource reach African countries have been affected by it. In "The Politics of HIV/ AIDS in Africa: Representation and the Political…

mobilization by the Nigerian peoples, since the post-colonial doctrine of foreign ownership of national resources, such as oil, prevent a broader unity between ethnic divides in the rural north and the urbanized south. In Nigeria, the underlying conflict between the North and the South has been encouraged by the oil companies and first world governments, such as the United States, that encourage dictatorships and authoritarian governance to maintain a monopoly on Nigeria’s oil wealth. Often, the…

Trans-Saharan trade routes from the Djenne city on the Niger River valley to North Africa. Almoravid group who later was assumed by the Mandinka Empire has destroyed the Soninke kingdom. Mandinka Empire established a trade route that went back east through Djenne and Timbuktu between the 13th and 15th century. In the 15th century the kingdom of Songhai has asserted its independence to the east, allowing Djenne and Timbuktu to rise…