“When the Soil Is Just Right—It Has to Feel Like This”

One of the most explosive eruptions of youth in the public sphere in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, which reverberated both locally and internationally, was the insurgency waged by at least fifty different armed youth groups in the Niger Delta region in southeastern Nigeria, beginning in 2006 and lasting until June of 2009. This strategic 'silencing' of women's rebellion against global capital and postcolonial brutality in many ways engenders further inequities within the already charged unequal socio-economic terrain in the marginalized Delta region. Thus, drawing heavily on the individual biographies of the lives of three young women who participated in the armed insurgency, chapter offer a phenomenological account of the feminization of popular resistance in the Delta. Egberima's plan is to establish a catering school where she will teach young women in the Delta how to use the culture and food of their people to make money and support themselves.