**7. Evaluation and conclusion**

The bulk of the discussion here revolves around Corporate Social Responsibility detailing the corporate-community nexus of the oil extraction business in the Niger Delta. What has been highlighted is that transnational corporations have left indelible marks across the Niger Delta as the resource extraction business expands. The Niger Delta communities have to cope with the impact and changes the growing oil business has brought upon them. The dynamism of the local community significantly determines the advancement and profitability of the oil extraction business.

This paper has focused on the impact of Shell Petroleum Development Company on Obufia in Egbema through its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In a bid to keep the local community away from its business activities, Shell reaches out to the community with packages that may be considered as mouth watering by the company. The community struggles to turn the package into such a useful value to themselves. This struggle brings out their creative tendencies, making them modify their traditional alliances and practices using available materials they could piece together. Some of those available materials are oral traditions of migrations and affiliations. The success the local community records in this bricolage blurs the deficiency of the manner by which Shell reaches out to the community in the name of CSR. Nonetheless, it adds credence to the fact that some sort of window dressing inhibits CSR practice despite the theoretical gain in harmonizing the contradictory positions by means of the concept—enlightened value maximization.

More so, analysts often concentrate on conflicts, actors involved, their objectives and aims as well as their causes, which may include remote and proximate, latent and visible issues of assorted kinds. How conflicts have been prevented, especially in contexts reputed for violence is often regarded as the default situation and gets little or insufficient attention. The same approaches to CSR which feed into the violent conflicts in communities in Rivers and Delta States where Shell operates, have fed into no violent conflict in Obufia. This study encourages improved focus on conflict prevention measures and dispositions discernible from nodes of global networks where the record of conflict has been known to be very high.

Transnational corporations tend to take their neoliberal disposition that elevates the individual and their interests as a universal given. This myopic disposition points to either a ridiculous naivety or a deliberate scheme to sustain the imbalance between the global North and South in terms of accessibility to world's resources. The naivety is to be read from the anthropological fact that humans act either to protect selfish interests or the interests of the groups they associate with, or for the interest of other people. From what we have seen about the global production network of oil, the complex has already determined the dispositions local communities must maintain in their relationship with the oil companies and the states. The lacuna in corporate governance codes regarding the relationship among individuals, corporate bodies and states, where beliefs and behaviors of key participants have been completely ignored [58, 59] can be insinuated as not being accidental. The world can keep searching for the permanent solution to incessant violent conflicts and wars without end for as long as the disposition to dominate remains alive. In subsequent studies, focus should be on how CSR can eliminate window dressing. The expansion of representation in the decision making processes of CSR can be explored.
