"Much has been written about the resource curse and the costs of resource-dependency. Natural Resources, Conflict, and Sustainable Development explores the case of Nigeria and the Niger Delta oil-producing region - both typically seen as exemplary cases of failed oil development - in new and compelling ways, and provides a provocative and complex analysis of the complex historical and political forces which have shaped the descent into an oil insurgency. This book contains some of the leading Nigerian commentators and analysts on the Niger delta crisis and offers a magnificent tour d'horizon of the relations between natural resources, violence and human development. An important and path breaking book." –Michael Watts, Class of ’63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley"...this is an important and welcome contribution to the political economy of the Niger Delta area...Further, the historical method used in the book helps to throw light on the centrality of land, its control, use, and distribution, to resource conflict...This book is worth reading." – African Review of Economics & Finance
