Africa: burdened with too much oil
Oil and other extractive sector companies look to Africa for its resource wealth without seeing
the people. *Emira Woods recounts a personal trip to Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region and
compares it to similar situations in Chad and Liberia where the communities in which natural
resources are exploited end up being the least developed.
SHATTERED HOPES Repression and resistance in mining communities(ISSUE Vol 9 No.4 2006)
By Stephen Appraku