The Niger Delta, the crude oil extraction center of Nigeria, features in the global public imagination as the archetypal theatre of oil production. Much is made of the spectacle of violence in this region: environmental devastation, local community protests and youth violence on account of the perceived injustice associated with the oil extractive industrial complex. The involvement of a global cartel of oil smuggling from this region, known as bunkering, which fuels and finances local militancy, which in turn exacerbates the atmosphere of violence in this beleaguered oilscape, is yet another...