SELF DETERMINATION AND RESOURCE CONTROL in Nigeria
YOUTH MILITIAS, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESOURCE
STRUGGLES IN THE NIGER-DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA
The Niger Delta region, Nigeria's oil belt has been the site of a generalized ethnic and regional struggle for self-determination since 1998, the…
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YOUTH MILITIAS, SELF DETERMINATION AND RESOURCE
STRUGGLES IN THE NIGER-DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA
The Niger Delta region, Nigeria's oil belt has been the site of a generalized ethnic and regional struggle for self-determination since 1998, the location of often-violent confrontations between local ethnic communities and agents of the Nigerian state and oil companies involved in the extraction
and exploitation of oil in the area. What began as community agitation has undoubtedly undergone several transformations. The first involved the flowering of civil society, which mobilized a popular civil struggle. The second saw the extension of the agitation from that against multinational oil companies (MNCs) to include the Nigerian state.
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