The Internationalization of Oil Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

Year 2008, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 92 - 118, 16.02.2008

Victor Ojakorotu

Abstract

The Internationalization of Oil Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

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