my journey part two
July 22nd, 2006
I began thinking about going back to Nigeria before our return flight touched down in the U.S. Although I had just had one of the most immersive experiences of my life, there was still so much I didn’t know. The Niger Delta story is enormous and enormously complex. Not only did I want to learn more, I was also passionately interested in getting this story out there. How many Americans know that we get 15 percent of our oil from Nigeria? Who outside the Delta really understands what’s going on there? Any way you slice it — global community or end users in the chain of consumption — we are intimately bound up with a people struggling to survive in a land rich with resources enough for everyone. That’s a story that needs to be told.
It all came together around a movie. Sandy Cioffi, the videographer who had accompanied us to Nigeria, wanted to make a documentary. Several GCJ alumni wanted to return. And now it’s happening. We leave in two weeks with a film crew and a vision and an openness to what wants to emerge.
Learn more about the documentary film Sweet Crude
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