Jeremy Weate in Medium:
The culture of oil that has shaped the production of images in and of Nigeria since the late 1950s is now drawing to a close. The world is turning to energy independence, to gas and to renewable energy. No one has any essential need for the sweet crude of the Niger Delta anymore. The political class, drunk on its proceeds, has yet to tell. We’re in that cartoon moment, when Bullwinkle stands frozen beyond the cliff top and is yet to plummet. Government (no matter the replaceable names) keeps signifying according to it a grand sense of self: in the size of overseas delegations, in magnificent plans for shining Lagos enclaves, in dreams of a Dubai planted on a Sahelian soil. No one has a strategy for a future beyond oil, or for a climate baked too hot because of it...[more]