There are no options for work. Fifty years of oil has brought the Deltans nothing. Ebia Amakady, 18, sits with her sleeping two-year-old son.
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There are no options for work. Fifty years of oil has brought the Deltans nothing. Ebia Amakady, 18, sits with her sleeping two-year-old son.

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Photograph

Ed Kashi

Maker
American, b. 1957

There are no options for work. Fifty years of oil has brought the Deltans nothing. Ebia Amakady, 18, sits with her sleeping two-year-old son.

From Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta


2006
Inkjet print, printed 2009
Image: 30.3 x 45.6 cm
Overall: 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Gift of Ed Kashi, 2009
2009.0205.0009
Inscriptions verso (grease pencil): Ed Kashi [signed] 3/16/09
TextEbia Amakady, 18, with her two year old son asleep, has nothing to do in this very poor village, with no oil concessions. Their former fishing grounds are nearly depleted and they only eat frozen fish. They have been left with no options for work. 50 years of oil has brought them nothing.

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