nigeria: God's Time, fishing in Nigeria's troubled waters
01.05.2003
You would have to be brave, foolish, or very hungry to eat the fish that God's Time is catching in his net. "I catch up to 1,000 fish sometimes," said God's Time, whose curious name is not uncommon in these parts, as he reached into a jerry can tied to his waist and pulled out a small bream. Environmentalists say there are few ways that the state has failed the people of Nigeria's oil-rich southeast more than the mess that has been made of the ecosystems in one of the world's great patches of mangrove forest.