It is fair to say that Waiting for an Angel looks at protests, or at least the story centers itself around two different protests. In class we have been reading and hearing quite a bit about the oil that Nigeria has and that the government steals a large portion of the profits. We also know that the people do not take this lying down, in the National Geographic article we even saw that there are militia's who organize and mobilize against the various oil firms. I cannot say for certain, without much more research (which maybe Kat will do again), but I think, in the case of militia's, this would be an extreme. The vast majority of people do not go from angry to violent revolt overnight, think the American Civil rights movement.

Much like our guest speaker Dr. Ogbomo told us, the majority of press about Nigeria was slanted toward the negative. There are more pieces written about the militants and their leader who was accused of treason. This really works for the companies that are in Africa. The world sees the Nigerian protesters as all militants and feels sorry that the companies are not able to conduct their capitalist business. Rarely do we see the public masses cheer for a group labeled "militants" or "terrorists" who "disrupt" production. Word with negative connotations, I am sure Ashley being better at journalism and words than me could explain that better.

There is a interesting correlation between the Nigerian police and the oil companies. Just like what we see in Waiting for an Angel, the police force uses just that, force, when it comes to protesters. What we have are protesters, not armed, simply holding a rally in protest of the drilling in Nigeria. Instead of letting the protest happen the oil company calls in the military who in turn kills five people. This isn't any ordinary military though, Mobile oil has their own police force that works in conjunction with the national police. The Mobile police are called "kill'em and go", I think the title is self explanatory. The companies, trough bribes I am sure, is allowed to have it's own police force and can conduct themselves in any way they please. Why not kill protesters? If you can get away with killing them, it sends a strong message that rallies and not to be held!