From Yahoo News
By Tom Ashby

Crude oil seeping from a gnarled steel wellhead forms a lake the size of a soccer field near the Nigerian village of Kegbara-Dere, but these oil fields have not exported a drop in 13 years.

The Ogoni tribe kicked Royal Dutch Shell out of this part of the Niger Delta in 1993 protesting that they had received nothing in return for four decades of oil production. Today, the same grievances are fueling a revolt across the entire oil heartland of Africa’s largest producer.

Oil is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy, but has done little for the rural communities of Nigeria’s far south where it is extracted.

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