The river looks still from a distance - the way oil sometimes appears calm before it catches fire. At K-Dere, a farming village in Nigeria’s Ogoni region, women wash cassava in water that shimmers with rainbow streaks.
“It’s been like this since I was a child,” 39-year-old woman, known as Mama Grace, said in a documentary monitored by BusinessDay, pointing at the oily patches rising to the surface. She wipes sweat from her forehead and shrugs. “The water is bad. But what choice do we have?”
More than 60 years after oil was first pumped fr
