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![]() Troubled times in the Niger Delta
![]() Despite the oil wealth of the Delta, families here still stuggle to make ends meet
In this edition of Crossing Continents, John Egan travels to the southernmost tip of the Niger Delta, to report on an amazing experiment in local democracy which is trying to enrich one of Nigeria's poorest and most restless regions.
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John meets some of the newly elected representatives of the Akassa "peoples' parliament" and hears of their hopes for the future. He also speaks to the project's animator, Bill Knight of the NGO Pro Natura, and the traditional chiefs who are losing some of their influence to the new Corporation. Clearly not everyone is happy with the quiet revolution that is sweeping through Akassa.
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