Belismita Gogoi

Mapping Neocolonial Extractivism: Corporate-State Collusion and Environmental Degradation in Isidore Okpewho’s The Tides

This paper examines the neocolonial environmental crisis depicted in Isidore Okpewho’s epistolary novel The Tides (1993). This investigates how postcolonial corporate-state collusion effects degradation of the ecosystem and marginalizes the indigenous populations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Grounded in neocolonial theory...