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Title:Nigeria's Niger Delta: understanding the complex drivers of violent oil-related conflict
Author:Obi, CyrilISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907)
Volume:34
Issue:2
Pages:103-128
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:political economy
petroleum
resistance
Niger Delta conflict
economic inequality
minority groups
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/24484022
Abstract:This paper explores the complex roots and dimensions of the Niger Delta conflict which has escalated from ethnic minority protests against the federal Nigerian State-Oil Multinationals' alliance in the 1990s to the current insurgency that has attracted worldwide attention. It also raises some conceptual issues drawn from 'snapshots' taken from various perspectives in grappling with the complex roots of the oil-related conflict in the paradoxically oil-rich but impoverished region as a step in a nuanced reading of the local, national and international ramifications of the conflict and its implications for Nigeria's development. The conflict is then located both in the struggle of ethnic minority groups for local autonomy and the control of their natural resources (including oil), and the contradictions spawned by the transnational production of oil in the region. The transition from resistance - as protest - to insurgency, as represented by attacks on State and oil company targets by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), is also analysed. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract]
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