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called the novel successful, "a powerful work, one that reaffirms that art done well is always big enough to contain politics". A review in the Guardian called the book a "powerful, accomplished third novel displays a growing pessimism about journalism's capacity to effect change."
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is a story about two people, Rufus, an emerging journalist, and Zaq, a famous reporter.They went to the Niger Delta in pursuit of an abducted white woman named Isabel Floode, who was used as a bargaining chip in Nigeria's
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storm oil
petrofiction
Helon Habila
Niger Delta
oil conflict
petrodollars
Orion magazine
civil war
Commonwealth Writers Prize
Orion Book Award
PEN/Open Book Award
"Petrofiction and Political Economy in the Age of Late Fossil Capital"



"Oil on Water by Helon Habila | Book review"



Pancake, Ann
"Oil on Water"
Orion Magazine
"Literary Militancy and Helon Habila's Oil on Water"
doi
10.2979/reseafrilite.48.4.07
ISSN
0034-5210
JSTOR
10.2979/reseafrilite.48.4.07
S2CID

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