Oil pipelines create a walkway for this young woman through the village of Okrika Town.
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Oil pipelines create a walkway for this young woman through the village of Okrika Town.
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
2009.0205.0014
Inscriptions verso (grease pencil): Ed Kashi [signed] 3/16/09
TextA young woman walks along the pipelines that bisect the town of Okrika, a troubled area near Port Harcourt that has oil, refineries, pipelines and violence. Factional fighting is common here. Fishing is struggling, like in most of the delta, but was once the main source of employment.
