Teaching: “Rebels in the Pipeline”

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I have to thank my little brother, Andy, who recently shared his newfound obsession with Current TV. As I started looking for things to use next semester, I was poking through Hulu.com & stumbled upon Vanguard, a series of 30-minute mini-documentaries. They’re quite good.

Over the next few weeks, as I select videos I will use in my classes (comparative politics & Latin American politics), I’ll post links & brief commentary here.

This first one is about Nigeria (one of our cases next semester), but it is appropriate for any discussion on the dilemmas of petrostates. The Vanguard crew in this video visits the Niger Delta, where much of Nigeria’s oil (which accounts for 80% of GDP) comes from. Just watch.