The Niger Delta and the Curse of Natural Resources

ISBN-13: 9786205474952 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str.

Belkis García Hernández

Opis

Nigeria is the main oil producer and exporter in West Africa, a country with a series of social, religious, economic and political conflicts. The impact of the oil industry has affected all aspects of life, hindering the processes of consolidation of democracy in the post-colonial state. With the presence of foreign capital and the economic dependence on hydrocarbons, a series of responses have been shaped by civil society, which resists not participating in the profits of this company. The most prolific fields are found around the Niger Delta, where the damage caused by foreign transnationals in the hydrocarbon sector can be observed.

O autorze

B.A. in History and B.A. in Theology, M.A. in Contemporary History, mention: Latin American Studies. She is Professor of Philosophy and History at the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Assistant Professor and Vice President of the Chair of Sociocultural Studies on the peoples of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.