The Nigerian-born Reuters photographer Akintunde Akinleye
won a World Press Photo award in 2007. He documents the dangerous
practice of illegal oil refining in the Niger Delta, which damages the
environment and the health of local people.
The wooden fishing boat navigating Nigeria's mangrove swamps is powered by a generator balanced above its volatile cargo.
Shimmering crude oil fills its hull, almost indistinguishable from the polluted water in the creek.
Here and there on the banks, people coated in oil wade through greasy
mud in patches of landscape blackened and stripped of the thick
vegetation that makes Nigeria's oil-producing delta so hard to police.
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