Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta

Now in paperback, Curse of the Black Gold is a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. World-renowned photo-journalist Ed Kashi traces 50 years of interest in Nigerian oil and the resulting degradation and community conflicts that have plagued the region. This is the first book to document what has been called the ‘scramble for African oil’. Kashi exposes the reality of its impact, providing a compelling pictorial history of one of the world’s great deltaic areas.