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Description for Delta Nigeria
Hardcover.
Nigerian photographer George Osodi documents his country's exploitation with regards to one of their richest natural assets - oil.
For more than five centuries the fortunes of the Niger Delta have been closely tied to that of the global economy. For its slave ports, then palm oil industry, and most recently, through the discovery of crude oil in the 1950s. Oil multinationals soon came to the fore, working in alliance with a local elite to strip the region of its wealth and despoil it. At the receiving end are the region's impoverished inhabitants: left with a poisoned environment, faced ... Read more
Nigerian photographer George Osodi documents his country's exploitation with regards to one of their richest natural assets - oil.
For more than five centuries the fortunes of the Niger Delta have been closely tied to that of the global economy. For its slave ports, then palm oil industry, and most recently, through the discovery of crude oil in the 1950s. Oil multinationals soon came to the fore, working in alliance with a local elite to strip the region of its wealth and despoil it. At the receiving end are the region's impoverished inhabitants: left with a poisoned environment, faced ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Trolley Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904563853
SKU
V9781904563853
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About George Osodi
Born in Nigeria in 1971, George Osodi continues to live and work in Lagos. He studied Business Administration at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos. Osodi was awarded first prize at the Fuji Africa Photojournalist of the Year Award in 2004 and was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award in 2009. He has exhibited at Newark Museum, New ... Read more
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