The Niger Delta has a long history of exploitation dating back to the colonial era when the region’s resources were extracted by foreign powers, leading to conflicts and social unrest.
    The area is now heavily polluted due to decades of oil extraction by multinational corporations, leading to devastating environmental degradation, including oil spills, deforestation, and water contamination. This environmental destruction has caused severe health problems, loss of livelihoods, and further conflict.

Pantheras has and an interest for human rights in the Niger Delta that replies to the urgency to address climate change and global geopolitical reorganization.
    Despite the valuable crude oil that flows from the ground beneath their feet, the neglected country dwellers in the Niger Delta wage a conflicted daily struggle to survive.
    With the end of the fossil fuel age in the horizon we delve into the complexity of Nigeria's smuggling ideologies and clandestine economies, exploring how the legacy of exploitation has paved the way for modern environmental and social crises, how people are resisting and commenting on the neoliberal risks of neocolonialism.