In Geography = War Jaar
confronts the international trafficing of toxic waste from first
world countries to third world countries.  In this particular
instillation, Jaar is concerned with thousands of metal barrels
of toxic waste which were unloaded in Koko, Nigeria from five
European freighters.  "Offered a fee of one hundred dollars a
month, a Nigerian farmer was persuaded to store the deteriorating
drums on a dirt lot just off the town's main steet.  The drums,
as it was later revealed, contained nearly four-thousand tons of
toxic wast from Italy, including the deadly carcinogenic compound
PCB." 
(H. Ashley Kistler, 1992)