Where Vultures Feast Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta

Ike Okonta, writer and journalist, was part of the editorial team that founded Tempo, the underground newspaper in Lagos, Nigeria, that played a critical role in the ousting of dictator General Ibrahim Babangida in 1993. Okonta also worked closely with the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and other MOSOP activists, and he is on the management committee of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria. His first collection of short stories, The Expert Hunter of Rats, won the Association of Nigerian Authors Prize in 1998. Ike Okonta is presently at St. Peter's College, Oxford, England Oronto Douglas is Nigeria's leading environmental human rights lawyer. He is deputy director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, and has been a visiting lecturer and speaker at community-organized events, international conferences, and universities all over the world. Douglas was a member of the legal team that represented Ken Saro-Wiwa before he was executed by the Nigerian military junta in November 1995. He received degrees in law from the University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and De Montfort, Leicester, England. His articles and speeches have been published in books, journals, and magazines in Nigeria, Europe, and the United StatesDouglas, Oronto is the author of 'Where Vultures Feast Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta', published 2001 under ISBN 9781578050468 and ISBN 1578050464.