1.4 Post-colonial Nigeria: Civil War, fragmentation, neocolonial corruption, and environmental exploitation (Casey)
Statistics of Post-Colonial Nigeria (Taken from Curse of the Black Gold by Michael Watts):
"Virtually every inch of the region has been touched by the industry directly through its operations or indirectly through neglect" - Michael Watts
NOTE: This book was published in 20??, and the statistics are accurate to that time
- In 2003, 70% of the country's oil wealth was stolen or wasted
- In 2005, 40% of the country's oil wealth was stolen or wasted
- There 13,329 settlements, 95% of which have less than 5,000 inhabitants
- Between 1970 and 2000, the number of people living on less than $1 per day has gone from 19 million to 90 million
- Literacy in core Nigerian states are barely 40%
- There are only 39% of children enrolled in primary school
- There are no desks, teaching materials, teachers, and in some cases roofs, available for primary schools
- The ratio of doctors to population in the Delta State is 1:27,000
"Most Nigerians are poorer today than they were in the late colonial period" - Nwafejoku Uwadibie
