Oil, Environment, and Lifeworlds in the Niger Delta

This Special Issue is the product of selected papers from the conference Oil, Environment, and Lifeworlds in the Niger Delta: Environmental History Approaches, held in July 2024 at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The conference was organised under the research project Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa (AFREXTRACT), funded by the European Research Council. While more than 30 papers were presented at the conference, the ones included in this Special Issue have been through a rigorous peer review process, ensuring their high quality. They offer significant knowledge on how oil extraction impacts the environment and how the inhabitants of the Niger Delta region recreate their lifeworlds amidst increasingly precarious ecological conditions.