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Scenes of daily life in the oil city of Warri, in the Niger Delta. Warri is a troubled town, with rampant poverty, unemployment, angry and violent youth and a crumbling infrastructure. Yet oil wealth is created in and around this area. In the tiny village of Ubeji, which is an ethnic Shakiri community near an NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Company) refinery, collect sand from the creeks for sale. Photograph © Ed Kashi