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Title: Where Vultures Feast - Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1578050464
ISBN 13: 9781578050468
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1ST.
Condition: Good
Weight: 1.204 pounds

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Since Royal Dutch Shell first struck oil in the Niger Delta in 1956, the environment and economy of the country have been in steady decline. The authors, a Nigerian journalist and lawyer, document the Nigerian people's struggle against the exploitation and destruction of their land and culture by Royal Dutch Shell and a series of corrupt Nigerian governments. Okonto was part of the editorial team that founded Tempo , an underground newspaper in Nigeria. He is presently at St. Peter's College, England. Douglas is Nigeria's leading environmental human rights lawyer. He is deputy director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth in Nigeria. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Ike Okonta is a scholar currently working at Oxford University. Oronto Douglas is a former attorney for the late Ken Saro-Wiwa.

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