A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

by Michael Peel

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Blending vivid reportage, history, and investigative journalism, in A Swamp Full of Dollars journalist Michael Peel tells the story of this extraordinary country, which grows ever more wild and lawless by the day as its refined petroleum pumps through our cities. Through a host of colorful characters--from the Area Boy gangsters of Lagos to a corrupt state governor who stashed money in his London penthouse, from the militants...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1569762864

ISBN13:9781569762868

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:Lawrence Hill Books

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Africa Business Business & Investing Central Africa Economic Conditions Economics History Human Geography Industries & Professions Nigeria Oil & Energy Petroleum, Mining & Geological Political Economy Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences West Africa

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