Nigeria’s Petroleum-based Nation-building
The Afro-Albertan connection
Western media coverage of violence in the Niger Delta has diverted attention away from Nigeria’s impressive economic progress. Paul Michael Wihbey, President of Washington-based energy consulting firm GWEST, draws on his in-depth working knowledge of West Africa to report on Nigeria’s energy-driven upswing as well as its heavy oil industry’s promising Alberta connection. (more…)
