About the author: Dr. Ihonvbere received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He is Professor of African Politics at The University of Texas at Austin.
1998 0-7734-9842-7 This study brings us into the distinctive world of Nigerian oil workers in their daily confrontations with the neo-Colonial state and foreign capital. It reveals how oil workers devise and execute survival strategies against a very formidable alliance of a state which is almost totally dependent on oil rents, and oil corporations whose main operational motivation is the maximization of profits and control of the market.