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2021

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01 février 2021

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EAN13

9789785916492

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English

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Here is a familiar phenomenon and especially easily understood in any neighbourhood, or settlement, or small town or certain parts of a city or geographical region where intensively profitable commercial or industrial or mining activities have wrought extensive physical changes, alongside transformation of basic values and political bickerings and configuration of social and political alignments.

The Locusts are Here Again documents and explores the various hazards, deprivations and sufferings engendered by crude oil-exploiting activities in the so-called oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta of Nigeria. The communities can so far only bear the oil physically but unable to own it economically, socially and politically except the deleterious consequences.

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Publié par

Malthouse Press

Date de parution

01 février 2021

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9789785916492

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

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