Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in The Niger Delta
Ed Kashiwas born in New York City and received a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University. Kashi’s first major documentary project, a study of the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, garnered him an NEA grant. His bookWhen The Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds(Pantheon, 1994) was the result of his cover story forNational Geographic. Kashi has received numerous awards, including the World Press and Pictures of the Year competitions. The author ofAging in America: The Years Ahead(powerHouse Books, 2003), Kashi has also published his work inNational Geographic,The New York Times Magazine,Time,Fortune,Geo,Smithsonian,Newsweek,Natural History,U.S. News & World Report,The Atlantic Monthly,Audubon,Granta,Aperture, andAmerican Photo, among others. Kashi lives in New Jersey.Michael Wattsis Chancellor’s Professor and Director of African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing on the Niger Delta has been widely published, and he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001 to conduct research on oil in Nigeria.