Where Vultures Feast
Subtitle: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Published: April 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781578050468
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Petroleum & oil industries; Petroleum industry and trade; Industries - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Technology; Environmental Studies; Petroleum industry; Science/Mathematics; Nigeria; Niger River Delta; Africa - Central - Nigeria; Political Science / Globalization; Corrupt practices; Petroleum; Environmental aspects
Description: "In 1995 the world was shocked by the news of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa - writer, political activist, and leader of the Niger Delta's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). Yet his summary execution by Nigeria's brutal military junta was only the latest horrific event in a centuries-old pattern of human rights abuse and environmental exploitation.

MOSOP was formed out of a final, desperate need to protest the destruction of a people's land and culture by two forces: a giant multinational corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, and a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments. In this book, Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against both Shell and Nigeria's military regime of the 1990s."--BOOK JACKET.