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The Niger Delta Crisis—Why It's Not Just About the Oil
Antoine Heuty

Antoine Heuty manages the Revenue Watch Institute Nigeria program with the Niger Delta Citizens Budget Platform, a coalition of NGOs working on budget monitoring in the Niger Delta and with the Government of Bayelsa State in Nigeria. Prior to joining Revenue Watch, he was Public Finance Economist with the Poverty Group at the United Nations Development Program, New York.

Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist who has traveled extensively through the Niger Delta and around the world. His images and essays have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and numerous other publications. Kashi is co-author, with Michael Watts, of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. His work is currently on display as part of the Open Society Institute's Moving Walls 14 exhibition.

Todd Moss

Todd Moss is senior fellow and director of the Emerging Africa Project. He returned to the center after serving as deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from May 2007 to October 2008.

Moss’s work focuses on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private capital flows, debt, and aid. He also worked on the economic crisis in Zimbabwe and led the Center's work on Nigerian debt, the African Development Bank and the IDA-15 replenishment round.

Moss is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous articles and books, including Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Asume Isaac Osuoka

Asume Isaac Osuoka is the director of Social Action, an organization based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, that promotes citizen participation in the policies and practices in energy and mining, trade, and investment that affect human rights, democracy, and livelihoods. He is also founder and chair of the Steering Committee of Niger Delta Citizens and Budget Platform, a collaboration of civil society organizations promoting democratic accountability in the Niger Delta.

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