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Shadows and Light: Oil, Power, and the Niger Delta

Date:
September 2008

All photographs © Ed Kashi

Photographer Ed Kashi has documented the stark contradictions between the abundance of Nigeria’s oil and the poverty that overshadows daily life in the Niger Delta. Asume Isaac Osuoka is an advocate for transparency and accountability, and works to ensure that extractive industry revenues benefit the people who live amid Nigeria’s vast natural resource wealth. In this multimedia piece produced by OSI and partner Revenue Watch Institute, Kashi and Osuoka describe the struggles of the Niger Delta’s citizens and the dire need for fair and responsible revenue management.

Read a transcript of "Shadows and Light: Oil, Power, and the Niger Delta."

A series of Ed Kashi's Niger Delta photos is also part of the OSI documentary exhibit Moving Walls 14.

Read more about the Revenue Watch Institute's work in Nigeria.

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Related Information

OSI Stories: Opening the Books on Natural Resource Revenues
October 10, 2008
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Photography as Advocacy—A Half Century of Oil and Misery in the Niger Delta
OSI-New York
September 23, 2008
audio AUDIO
OSI and the Revenue Watch Institute hosted a discussion of oil in the Niger Delta and the use of photography in advocating for social change.

Shadows and Light: The Power of Oil in the Niger Delta
video VIDEO   slideshow SLIDESHOW  
Part of the OSI Moving Walls 14 exhibit, Ed Kashi's photographs tell the story of half a century of oil exploration and production and its devastating consequences in the Niger Delta.

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