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	Podcast:		Witness
	Episode:		Nigeria strikes oil
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:08:28
	Publish Date:		2023-10-04 09:00:00
	Description:		In 1956 commercial quantities of oil were discovered in the Nigerian village Oloibiri. It marked the start of a huge oil industry for Nigeria but came at a cost for villages in the Niger Delta. Chief Sunday Inengite was 19-years-old when prospectors first came to his village in search of crude oil. In 2018 he spoke to Alex Last about the impact of the discovery. (Photo: An oil worker at an oil well in Nigeria. Credit: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
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