Nigeria: Criminal Energy

Gang violence in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, is there to stay because it is fueled by rent-seeking local politicians and their comrades at the federal level. My contribution to Konkret (August 08) deals with the crisis in the oil-producing region of Nigeria and tries to disentangle the complicated relationship between local and regional government officials, armed militias, international oil companies as well as free-lanced political entrepreneurs (pdf of the article here).