Tag Archives: Ken Saro-Wiwa
By Fatimah Kelleher Centuries old, travel writing has been instrumental in crafting perceptions of the world we live in; journeying authors have wielded significant influence over immobile audiences who have wanted to ‘see’ beyond their own square mile of existence. … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged African diaspora, Gary Younge, Ibn Battuta, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, London, Nigeria, V.S. Naipaul
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies…something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die…It doesn’t matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before … read more »
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Tagged GoodluckJonathan, IndepthAfrica, John Atta Mills, Jonathan, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Lagos, lagos nigeria, Nelson Mandela, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria newspaper, nigeria time, online nigeria, Reuben Abati, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
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by Michael Keating, The Guardian In 2010 the world watched in horror as the Gulf of Mexico filled with 5m barrels of oil from an undersea leak caused by the careless handling of equipment on the part of BP and … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Gulf of Mexico, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell, United Nations Environment Programme
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By Sokari Ekine, Red Pepper The Niger Delta has been at the centre of Nigeria’s post‑independence military project from the first coup in 1966 through to the present. To the outside world it remained a forgotten outpost, however, until the … read more »
Posted in Hot Spot, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Chanomi Creek, Delta State, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Shell
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Verily, verily, despite government’s presumably tough talk and stance, if Nigeria still has a chance. Only a Sovereign National Conference (SNC) otherwise known as Ethnic Nationalities’ Conference (ENC) can save Nigeria. Given that Nigeria was founded on illegal or fraudulent … read more »
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Tagged Boko Haram, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaac Adaka Boro, Ken Saro-Wiwa, National Assembly, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigerians, United States
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November 10, 2011 by benim
Royal Dutch Shell’s failure to mop up two oil spills in the Niger Delta has caused huge suffering to locals whose fisheries and farmland were poisoned, and it must pay $1 billion to start cleaning up the region, Amnesty International … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Pan African News, Shell, Shell Nigeria, Southern Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, West Africa
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Royal Dutch Shell has agreed that a Nigerian community impacted by its oil spills can seek compensation in a British court, lawyers in the case have said, potentially opening itself up to bigger future financial and reputational damages. Shell said … read more »
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Nigeria, North Africa, Ogoni people, Oil spill, Pan African News, Royal Dutch Shell, Shell Nigeria, Southern Africa, United Nations Environment Programme, West Africa
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February 10, 2011 by benim
Nigerians were reminded of a grim period in their history this week with the announcement that the son of hated ex-dictator Sani Abacha has qualified as a candidate for state governor. Mohammed Abacha, 44, is to run for governor of … read more »
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Tagged Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Mohammed Abacha, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Sani Abacha, Wole Soyinka
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December 9, 2010 by benim
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan had doubts this year about whether he would stand in elections next April, saying his focus was organising credible polls, according to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable. The cable, obtained by WikiLeaks and published by Britain’s … read more »
Posted in Article, News, Nigeria, West Africa, Wikileaks
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Tagged Africa news, Atiku Abubakar, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthCanada, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Nigeria news, Olusegun Obasanjo, Robin R. Sanders, United States, Wikileaks, Wikileaks on Nigeria
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November 12, 2010 by benim
One image that stood out for me during the recent Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in the USA was the image of Congressman Charlie Melancon crying that ‘all he ‘knew’ and ‘loved were at risk.’ It was his crying that … read more »
Posted in Analysis, News, Nigeria, Politics, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, BP, Charlie Melancon, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Gulf of Mexico, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigeria, Royal Dutch Shell, United States
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November 12, 2010 by benim
An attempt to immortalise late Ken Saro-Wiwa, an Ogoni environmental activist who was hanged in 1995 by the military regime of Sani Abacha, was on Thursday blocked at the senate. The proposal came through a motion sponsored by Lee Maeba … read more »
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Tagged Abuja, Africa news, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Lee Maeba, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Ogoni people, Sani Abacha
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November 11, 2010 by benim
Smoke rises from an illegal crude oil refinery site in Niger Delta, July 2010. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/ReutersFifteen years after the execution of the Nigerian writer and campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa, the government in Africa’s most populous country has an unprecedented chance … read more »
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Tagged Africa news Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, Human rights, IndepthAfrica, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Niger Delta, Ogoni people, Politics of Nigeria, Port Harcourt
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