A Tale of Two Oil Spills

Oil has been spilling in the Niger Delta in Nigeria for decades but neither the Nigerian government nor anyone else has cared. If just a very small fraction of the attention being paid by the international media to the current oil spill in the Gulf Coast were paid to the situation in the Niger Delta, the situation of the people in that region might have improved. However, since African lives and livelihood are disposable, it does not deserve the attention being paid to people elsewhere.