Award winning novelist and University of Benin Bursar, Dr. May Nwoye, has returned with a new novel, Oil Cemetery.

A press release from her US publishers, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co, LLC, says” community of the poor produces the oil but suffers from its environmental effects, while the rich profit from it”’.

Such is the case all over the world, but especially in the oil-producing Niger-Delta region of Nigeria, creating what is literally an Oil Cemetery.

The novel, the publishers went on, shows how Nigerians cope with the environmental pollution that has accompanied the discovery of oil wealth in their communities, adding that Oil Cemetery is an extremely powerful book that shows the manipulations of the upper class and the obscene wealth enjoyed by the few, while the masses live in poverty and suffer from environmental degradation of their land.

The book tells about Rita, a fragile young girl whose father was a victim of the oil company, by a twist of fate is the one who leads a subtle revolution that will shock the entire community.

“This is a moving story of the poor, who have said NO to oppression as they seek solution to end suffering and deaths brought by oil excavation,” the release added.

Ifeoma, who studied in the US, was a former national vice president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Author of several other novels, and collections of short stories, she said, “My inspiration for Oil Cemetery came from the monumental noise, the endless tears, and the insensitive treatment of the inhabitants of oil producing areas in Nigeria, where the land that produces the wealth of a nation suffers from abject poverty and deprivation in the face of environmental degradation.”