A swamp full of dollars : pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier / Michael Peel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peel, Michael, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Nigeria--Niger River Delta.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Nigeria--Economic conditions.

Nigeria.

Nigeria--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A gripping account of how the 50-year life of Nigeria has been shaped by the crude oil that flows from its Niger Delta, this chronicle is peopled with a cast of characters that is stranger than fiction?from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos and the anti-imperialist militants in their swamp forest hideouts to the oil company executives in their office suites and a corrupt state governor who stashed a million dollars in cash in his west London penthouse. Part travelogue, part straightforward reportage, this cautionary tale for a world that runs on petroleum fo

Contents:

Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Prologue: Trigger Point; PART ONE: THE HUNDRED YEARS OIL WAR; 1. Stark Illiterates and Junkies; 2. Where Duty and Glory Lead; 3. More Popular than Churchill; PART TWO: LIVING AT THE OIL FRONTLINE; 4. The Boys from the Bookshop; 5. Fuel the Bike, Fuel the Rider; 6. The Discerning Gentlemen; PART THREE: THE NEW GULF CONFLICT; 7. Fish, but not Fishing; 8. Things Are Looking Up; 9. Not Hostages but Journalists; Epilogue: The Hope of the World; Notes and Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-208) and index.

ISBN:

1-56976-697-5

OCLC:

652653788