Table of Contents:
  • Contending perspectives on oil minorities
  • Ethnicity, ethnic identity and ethnic minorities in the Niger Delta: some conceptual issues
  • Oil minorities identity politics: a historical perspective
  • From independence to the outbreak of the civil war
  • The Nigerian civil war and the aftermath: the changing fortunes of the oil minorities of the Niger Delta
  • Economic crisis, structural adjustment and the changing forms of identity politics of the oil minorities of the Niger delta
  • Structural Adjustment Programme in Nigeria : theoretical foundations
  • The impact of structural adjustment on Nigeria
  • Ethnic identity politics under structural adjustment
  • The changing global and domestic environment
  • Oil minorities movements of the Niger Delta: patterns of continuity and transformation
  • New trends, new contradictions in the Delta: identity as national liberation
  • The globalisation of local struggles in the Niger Delta (1991-1999)
  • Decay and renewal in the oil minorities movements of the Niger Delta
  • Trajectories of ethnic minority politics in the Niger Delta: implications for the Nation-State Project in Nigeria
  • Concluding remarks: Niger Delta oil minorities movement and the future of Nigeria
  • App. 1. The Kaiama declaration
  • App. 2. Ogoni Bill of Rights
  • App. 3 Addendum to the Ogoni Bill of Rights