What do you know about the crisis?

Company Town

Photograph by Ed Kashi



Oil leaves its mark in Okrika, from a company umbrella to a trail of pipelines coiling through town. Since oil started flowing, most communities have seen living standards fall, betraying the hope that oil once brought to Nigeria.






It is important that a person's opinion is formed from experiences, knowledge and exposure.



In the light of previously not known information, intelligent and smart people do not hesitate to change thier point of view.



Many Nigerians either do not have an opinion or are clueless about the Niger Delta situtation.


Most of us are quick to judge although we have neither been to, lived nor interacted with the people who live in the creeks, islands, swamps and rural areas where Nigeria's wealth is generated.


We may have bad road and poor electricity all over the country and wonder what manner of government is unable to manage the vast wealth generated form oil exploration to provide basic utilities like good roads, power, etc.


For most of the Niger Delta, the are neither roads, schools, nor electricity to complain about.









Village Life

Photograph by Ed KashiEbia


Amakadou, 18, watches over her sleeping two-year-old son in the village of Oweikorogba. Like most delta settlements, the village has no power or clean water.





The crisis in the Niger Delta is only the begining.


Unless the Nigerian state gets off the road it is on -the road of indifference to the Niger Delta.

It will definitely end up where it is headed, disruption creek.



Inspired by an article from the National Geographic

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/nvs/curse-of-the-black-gold.html