The Stream: The Ogoni vs oil giant Shell

Brilliant! Great clip, very well made. Really glad to see it. Well done to the whole team involved in this production. More please, ASAP!!!

It is evident a widely cast net of co-familial support across the Nigerian state will be needed to catch up what wealth can be rescued from the hands of a small minority blanketting oil concerns across the critical south-western corner of Africa.NGO activity may then attend to areas neglected by a Governance determined to maintain a poverty of development in favour of a breeding ground of disempowered ready recruits to whate'er may ensue in decades to come,and right a more Democratic balance.

@noprofitmaximierung

Imperialism suggests that there is an empire, in the classical sense, behind it. These multinational corporations, thats the real problem, are more powerful than many empires have been in history. And less accountable. Shell is headquartered in the Netherlands, with a big office in london, and a huge subsidiary in the USA.

Everyone is missing the point here. The point is IMPERIALISM, when foreign corporations "invest" into a country and leave with more money, stealing wealth from countries and indebting entire nations from corrupting their politicians.

won't happen as shell and bp have seats in government

The minute foreign corporations got the wells running, gang factions within the country began trying to seize them. One would seize a well or pumping station, and the other would bomb it. Nigeria needs to start thinking like one people part of a nation before all is lost to Al Shabab and the gangs. Things are much more complicated.