Violence and Oil in Nigeria

Last week I was quoted in an article on Time.com about the recent violence in the central Nigerian city of Jos. From the article:

Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at the U.K.-based Cranfield School of Management, says oil companies have at various times pitted ethnic factions against one another for economic gain.

Kakabadse blames a lethal combination of outside oil interests, long-standing local conflicts and poverty for the sectarian strife. “In Nigeria the Christian-Muslim thing is the tip of the iceberg,” he says. “What’s underneath the water is a much more complex sociopolitical situation, which cannot be explained just in terms of the religious divide. You have a recipe ripe for conflict, and it just so happens to be Christian-Muslim.”

Read the full article here.