Environmental Sustainability

What is it about?

This study is an exploration into how African women, especially the uneducated, peasant women of Nigeria's Niger Delta region, become frontline environmental activists combating multi-nationals wreaking havoc on the ecosystem of the region. The paper explores also the cultural symbols invested in the body of the woman as both life-giving and a harbinger of death. The determination of the women depicted in this novel to stop the pillage of the environment is crucial to their success in the nurturing roles culture has given them.

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Why is it important?

This research shows that traditional societies have well developed defense mechanisms against tyranny and oppression in any form. Despite the back-bench role traditional societies accord the female gender, the women do not sit back without contributing where and when it matters to the survival of their communities

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