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Oil in the Niger Delta and Photography as Advocacy

September 30, 2008
Photography as Advocacy—A Half Century of Oil and Misery in the Niger Delta (September 23, 2008)
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Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of oil in the world—and is now one of the major suppliers of U.S. oil in what has been called the scramble for African oil. Virtually all of Nigeria’s oil is pumped from the nine states that make up the Niger Delta in the southeast of the country. Yet the delta remains the poorest region in the nation. Political gangsterism, corruption, and poverty seem to converge there.

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project and Revenue Watch Institute hosted a panel on oil in the Niger Delta and the use of photography in advocating for social change. Ed Kashi and Michael Watts discussed their new book, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.

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Economic Justice, Culture and Art

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