When Shell discovered commercial crude in the Niger Delta in 1956, it entrenched a hierarchy that lasted decades: international oil companies at the top, the Nigerian state in the middle, and oil-bearing communities at the margins.
Nearly thirty years after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the mos
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