The Indigenous Ogoni Have Suffered from State-Sponsored Development as

question 79

Multiple Choice

The indigenous Ogoni have suffered from state-sponsored development as

• A)rivers were dammed flooding Ogoni traditional lands
• B)Ogoni horticulturalists were driven from their lands now used to grow bananas for corporate farmers
• C)Ogoni herds were destroyed to make way for cotton plantations
• D)Ogoni lands were polluted by oil exploration and development
• E)Ogoni forests were logged for their valuable tropical woods

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