Where Vultures Feast
Shell, Human Rights, and Oil
Verso Books · Print & ebook · October 17, 2003
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.
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- Who it’s for
- From the 1895 siege of Brass to Shell-era conflict, the book traces Nembe's struggle.
- Genres
- African Politics, Human Rights, Colonialism & Its Aftermath
- Published
- Verso Books, October 17, 2003
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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.
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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 Dutch Shell. Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against the world’s largest oil company, demonstrating how (in contrast to Shell’s public profile) irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a people destitute. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full circle as crude oil has taken the place of palm oil, but the dramatis personae remain the same: a powerful multinational company bent on extracting the last drop of blood from the richly endowed Niger Delta, and a courageous people determined to resist.
Brass and the Delta
From the 1895 siege of Brass to Shell-era conflict, the book traces Nembe's struggle.
Come here for
- The razing of Brass and its toll of more than two thousand lives
- Nembe's struggle over livelihood amid government repression and Shell's oil operations
Expect
- A case against Shell's practices and their effects on agricultural land
- The Niger Delta's shift from palm oil to crude oil
Where it sits
| African Politics | 32% |
|---|---|
| Colonialism & Its Aftermath | 26% |
| Human Rights | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Petroleum Engineering
- Authors
- Ike Okonta, Oronto Douglas, George Monbiot
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Published
- October 17, 2003
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Petroleum Engineering