ABSTRACT
This book has used the concept of Nollywood geographies to explore key aspects of Nigeria’s relationship not only to its own natural resources but also to the world beyond its national borders. If colonial empire formed some of these contexts of interaction, then so, in an even more elemental sense, did natural environments. Today, Africa’s economic dependence on natural resources is only increasing, a function not simply of deindustrialization and the shrinking of the continent’s manufacturing sector but also of the uncanny capacity of extractive industries to uncover new mineral and oil reserves—to identify fresh mining and hydrocarbon assets and, in so doing, strengthen longstanding impressions of Africa as an egregiously underexploited land of plenty.
