The world has hardly paid attention to the Niger Delta and Nigeria’s travails since 2003, or to the region generally. Unlike Los Angeles – or London, or Paris, or Hong Kong - there are very few stories and images that come to mind at the mention of the Gulf of Guinea.
If there is now any predominant narrative of the Niger Delta’s troubles it is “angry black man with a gun is in the way of your oil.”
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