A Swamp Full of Dollars
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A Swamp Full of Dollars

Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Swamp Full of Dollars

Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

About this book

Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The oil-rich Delta region at the heart of it all is, as Peel shows us, a troublespot as hot as the local pepper soup. Through a host of characters, from the prostitutes of Port Harcourt to the Area Boys of Lagos, from the militants in their swamp forest hideouts to the oil company executives in London, Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its crude oil pumps through our cities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication page
  6. Contents
  7. Maps
  8. Prologue: Trigger Point
  9. PART ONE: THE HUNDRED YEARS OIL WAR
  10. 1 Stark Illiterates and Junkies
  11. 2 Where Duty and Glory Lead
  12. 3 More Popular than Churchill
  13. PART TWO: LIVING AT THE OIL FRONTLINE
  14. 4 The Boys from the Bookshop
  15. 5 Fuel the Bike, Fuel the Rider
  16. 6 The Discerning Gentlemen
  17. PART THREE: THE NEW GULF CONFLICT
  18. 7 Fish, but not Fishing
  19. 8 Things Are Looking Up
  20. 9 Not Hostages but Journalists
  21. Epilogue: The Hope of the World
  22. Notes and Select Bibliography
  23. Acknowledgements