Who owns the oil? The politics of ethnicity in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

Africa Today

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-47

  Ejobowah, John Boye ^a  

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DOI: 10.2979/aft.2000.47.1.28     Document Type: Article

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