Of Turmeric and Truth: “Fuel for Thought” and the Struggle in Ogoni
We are struck by some parallels between the Ogoni struggle, the insistent energy of the recent School Strikes and Extinction Rebellion's actions over the past weeks.
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Legal ruling in Holland against Shell “a vital step towards justice” for Ogoni
In an historic judgement yesterday, a Dutch court issued an interim ruling that it does have jurisdiction to hear the legal case bought by four widows of the Ogoni 9, who were murdered by the Nigerian military back in 1995.
Shell faces landmark legal action over human rights & climate: “It’s time to bring an end to decades of impunity”
Some twenty four years after Saro-Wiwa’s death, along with eight of his colleagues, who were illegally murdered by the Nigerian Government for their campaign against Shell, a Dutch court today heard from the widows of those hung.
Of Memory and Power
Remembering past struggles against oil: Ida Tarbell, Mohammed Mosaddegh and Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Amnesty: Investigate Shell’s “Complicity in murder, rape and torture” in Nigeria
Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into Shell's complicity in “murder, rape and torture in Nigeria” in the nineties.
A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories
Nigerian activist Nnimmi Bassey on the state's efforts to crush memory of the struggle against Shell
Why Nigeria Still Fears Ken Saro-Wiwa
Every year today is the one day that I dread. Even now twenty years on, today does not feel like any other day. It is not a normal day. It was twenty years ago today that the world watched in horror when the Nigerian junta murdered the writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni.