Project Resources
Image Header: Friends of the Earth Protest in the Czech Republic in 1996 after the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa. Friends of the Earth International's Photostream. Uploaded 26 May 2011.
Primary Texts:
- Agary, Kaine. Yellow-Yellow. Dtalk Shop, 2006. Print.
- Habila, Helon. Oil on Water. New York: Penguin, 2010. Print.
- Ifowodo, Ogaga. The Oil Lamp. Africa World Press, 2005. Print.
- Na’Allah, Abdul Rasheed, ed. Ogoni’s Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria. Africa World Press, 1998. Print.
- Okri, Ben. “What the Tapster Saw.” Stars of the New Curfew. London: Vintage, 1988. 183-194. Print.
- Ojaide, Tanure. Delta River Blues and Home Songs. Kraft Books, 1976. Print.
- Okpewho, Isidore. Tides. London: Longman, 1993. Print.
- Saro-Wiwa, Ken. A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary. New York: Penguin, 1996. Print.
- -----. Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa. 2013. Print.
Secondary Texts:
- Anderson, Martha G. “Enchanted Rivers: True Stories about Water Spirits from the Niger Delta.” Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Ed. Henry John Drewal. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2008: 26-47. Print.
- Apter, Andrew. The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005. Print.
- Backman, Melvin. "One of Oil's Founding Families is Divesting from Fossil Fuels, and Slamming ExxonMobil in the Process." 23 March 2016. Quartz media. qz.com. Web. 25 March 2016.
- "Birth of the Nigerian Colony - Google Cultural Institute." Birth of the Nigerian Colony - Google Cultural Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. <https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/exhibit/birth-of-the-nigerian-colony/ARi_MKdz?hl=en&position=44%2C0>.
- Bob, Clifford. “From Ethnic to Environmental Conflict: Nigeria’s Ogoni Movement.” Chapter 3 of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism by Bob. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. 54-116. Print.
- Caminero-Santagelo, Byron. Different Shades of Green: African Literature, Environmental Justice, and Political Ecology. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2014. Print.
- -----. “Witnessing the Nature of Violence: Resource Extraction and Political Ecologies in the Contemporary African Novel.” Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches. Ed. Elizabeth DeLoughrey, Jill Didur, and Anthony Carrigan. Routledge, 2015: 226-241. Print.
- "Chinua Achebe." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Ed. The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
- Douglas, Oronto and Ike Okonta. “Ogoni People of Nigeria versus Big Oil.” Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization. Ed. Jerry Mander and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, International Forum on Globalization. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006. 152-156. Print.
- Falola, Toyin O. "Nigeria - Nigeria as a Colony." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. <http://www.britannica.com/place/Nigeria/Nigeria-as-a-colony>.
- Gessner, David. The Tarball Chonicles: The Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill. Minneapolis: Milkweed, 2011. Print.
- Ibeanu, Okechukwu. “Oiling the Friction: Environmental Conflict Management in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.” Environmental Change and Security Project Report. Issue 6 (Summer 2000). Wilson Center. Web 29 Feb 2016 <https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/oiling-the-friction-environmental-conflict-management-the-niger-delta-nigeria>
- Kashi, Ed and Michael Watts, eds. Curse of Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Brooklyn: PowerHouse Books, 2008. Print.
- Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. Print.
- Lahrichi, Kamilia. "Environmental War Waged in Amazonia." USA Today 11 March 2016. Web. 28 March 2016.
- LeMenager, Stephanie. Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. New York: Oxford UP, 2014. Print. Especially her reading of Habila’s novel (123-137) in a chapter called “Petromelancholia.”
- Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2011. Print. (chapter 3: Pipe Dreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Environmental Justice, and Micro-Minority Rights) (also in ebrary)
- Okuyade, Ogaga, ed. Eco-Critical Literature: Regreening African Landscapes. Contains essays on Ojaide, Okpewho, Saro-Wiwa, and Agary. (in ebrary)
- Phillips, John Edward. "What's New About African History?" History News Network. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2016. <http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/24954>.
- Salmons, Jill. “The Role of Mammy Wata as an Agent for the Promotion of Ogoni National Identity.” Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. Ed. Henry John Drewal. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2008: 422-33. Print.
- Sinha, Indra. Animal's People. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print.
- Steyn, Phia. “Shell International, the Ogoni People, and Environmental Injustice in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: The Challenge of Securing Environmental Justice in an Oil-based Economy.” Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice. Ed. Sylvia Hood Washington, Paul C. Rosier, and Heather Goodall. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2006. 371-87. Print.
- The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Wole Soyinka." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
- Tschirgi, Dan. “The Niger Delta’s Ogoni Uprising.” Chaper 5 of Turning Point: The Arab World’s Marginalization and International Security after 9/11. By Tshirgi. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007. 116-137. Print.
- Tyson, Lois. "Postcolonial Criticism." Critical Theory Today: A User-friendly Guide. New York: Garland Pub., 1999. N. pag. Print.
- Watts, Michael. “Oil Frontiers: The Niger Delta and the Gulf of Mexico.” Oil Culture. Ed. Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2014: 189-210. Print. (also in ebrary)
- Wenzel, Jennifer. “Petro-Magic-Realism: Towards a Political Ecology of Nigerian Literature.” Postcolonial Studies 9.4 (2006): 449-464.
- ------. “Petro-Magic-Realism Revisited: Unimagining and Reimagining the Niger Delta.” Oil Culture. Ed. Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2014: 211-225. Print. (also in ebrary)