Mapping Neocolonial Extractivism: Corporate-State Collusion and Environmental Degradation in Isidore Okpewho’s The Tides

This paper examines the neocolonial environmental crisis depicted in Isidore Okpewho’s epistolary novel The Tides (1993). It investigates how postcolonial corporate-state collusion affects ecosystem degradation and marginalizes indigenous populations in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. Grounded i