The Anthropology of Oil: The Impact of the Oil Industry on a Fishing Community in the Niger Delta
Author(s)
Fentiman, Alicia
Abstract
The impact of oil upon the lives of the people in Oloma, a small fishing community in the Niger Delta, is examined. The basic problems and tensions encountered there are shared throughout the entire Delta region of Nigeria, where oil production has, instead of benefiting the people, destroyed their environment, disrupted their lives and made them environmental victims.
