Monday, July 7, 2008

NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Interview with Ed Kashi

July 6 – Ed Kashi interview on NPR Weekend Edition Sunday with Liane Hansen.

Click here to listen to this 5 minute interview.

Click here to see the article and excerpts from 'Curse of the Black Gold'

After all, our governments are the stewards of our land, and our resources, and of their people, and, as one Environmentalist in Nigeria actually pointed out, because the politicians are not beholden to being voted into power, and they get their money from the residual monies that come in from the oil industry, there’s a way that they can bypass the people, and they don’t really have to serve them.
-Ed Kashi, excerpts from the interview

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