Editorial Board

Emira Woods

BC Editorial Board member Emira Woods is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.

2 pieces

Cover Story

Obama Visits Africa’s “Oil Gulf”

By Emira Woods Editorial Board

President Barrack Obama makes his historic visit to Africa. Born of a Kenyan economist father, Obama will go not to his ancestral lands but to Ghana, Africa’s newest oil State. Oil was discovered in Ghana just in 2007. A wide swath of the Atlantic‘s Western shores, the area stretching from Morocco to Angola is becoming…

President Barrack Obama makes his historic visit to Africa. Born of a Kenyan economist father, Obama will go not to his ancestral lands but to Ghana,…

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Commentary

Oil Trip: Rich Pocket Profits – Poor Suffer Environmental Consequences

By Emira Woods Editorial Board

It is almost impossible to imagine, as we sit in a well-lit, fully functioning gas station on Main Street, USA, that a community blessed with oil riches under its soil could look as impoverished as Yenagoa in the Nigerian state of Bayelsa. Yenagoa is the site of one of Nigeria’s first oil wells, built in…

It is almost impossible to imagine, as we sit in a well-lit, fully functioning gas station on Main Street, USA, that a community blessed with oil…

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