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Where Vultures Feast
Ike Okonta
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Description for Where Vultures Feast
Paperback. Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against Shell and the Nigerian military, demonstrating (in contrast to Shell's public profile) how irresponsible practices have degraded land and left a people destitute. Compelling and angry, it draws attention to a grave injustice. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; JPVH; KNBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack.
A hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa-writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments and the giant multinational Royal ... Read more
On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack.
A hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa-writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments and the giant multinational Royal ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781859844731
SKU
V9781859844731
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About Ike Okonta
Ike Okonta is a writer and journalist. His first collection of short stories, The Expert Hunter of Rats, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize in 1998. Oronto Douglas is Nigeria's leading human rights lawyer and was a member of the legal team that represented Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995.
Reviews for Where Vultures Feast
Okonta and Douglas provide a vivid and relentless account of human tragedy since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta in 1956.
Carl Hand This passionate book should be read by all those interested in the links between oil and oppression. The authors,, both from Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta, bring equal depth of knowledge and outrage at the ... Read more
Carl Hand This passionate book should be read by all those interested in the links between oil and oppression. The authors,, both from Nigeria's oil producing Niger Delta, bring equal depth of knowledge and outrage at the ... Read more