| Summary: | Helon Habila left Nigeria for the first time to receive the Caine prize in England in 2001 (The Guardian) and was at the time still working as a journalist. The narrator of his Novel Oil on Water (2011) is also a journalist. Rufus is a journalist seeking the truth. The purpose of this essay is to show how unsustainability manifests itself in Helon Habila's Oil on Water. Unsustainability is either economic, a form of neocolonialism, or ecological in Habila's novel. I use economic, neocolonialist and ecocritical references and theories to illustrate my interpretation of Oil on Water and to show that Habila denounces all the previously mentioned forms of unsustainability. In pursuing this aim I finally evoke potential ideas that could lead to the path of a more sustainable future for the Niger Delta.
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