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From The Feminist Wire, an excellent article by Adejoke Tugbiyele “Sexual Identity and Nigerian Culture”?? which examines the challenges presented by? the recently signed Same Sex Marriage Bill and the resulting explosion of homophobic violence across the country. “I spent…
Odi Massacre & Origins of Militancy in Ijawland
Kaiama – December 1998 Kaiama is a small town in Western Ijaw, about half an hour’s drive from Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State. Historically Kaiama is famous for being the birth place of Major Isaac Adaka Boro, an Ijaw…
US Expansionism by stealth: Militarism from Africa to the Pacific Islands
From Guernica – The Pivot to Africa.? The US [AFRICOM] claims it has a limited military presence in Africa with just one military base in Djibouti however when each small ‘footprints’ is counted, we see the whole is alarmingly expansive….
My grandmother was a fisherwoman………
she used to fish on the Sombrero River and the adjoining creeks but then came the? oil, and? greed, and pollution and war, now most of the fish are dead, fat men and women fight over the overspill of their…
Haiti: KOURAJ: “Be True to Yourself”
The evangelical churches responsible for driving homophobia in Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia and the USA have begun a campaign of violence and hate in Haiti. On Friday, an all faith coalition of homophobic haters called [The Haitian Coalition of Religious and…
Shocking extent of oil pollution in the Niger Delta
Shocking photographs of ?showing the extent of oil pollution in Niger Delta rivers, creeks and ponds. ?Via National Post?for more photos. For more on the Niger Delta environment…
Redux: Odi & Filling Nigeria’s Memory Hole
After 14 years, Nigerian courts have ordered the government to pay compensation to Odi Town in the sum of nearly $240 million within 21 days. He described the attack on Odi as
“brazen violation of the fundamental human rights of the victims to movement, life and to own property and live peacefully in their ancestral home.”
a€?We Remember Differentlya€? – Oil is Everything in Nigeria
Chimanada Ngozi Adiche responds to some of the criticism of Chinua Achebe’s memoir “There Was a Country”. I finished reading ‘There Was a Country’ a few days ago and was contemplating my own response to some of the critical reviews of the book. Fortunately for me Adichie has said nearly everything I wa
#16Days: – Nigeria’s Memory Hole*
In the early hours of the morning of the 20th November, 1999, 27 trucks carrying over 2000 soldiers plus 4 armored personnel carriers mounted with machine guns drove into Odi Town in Bayelsa State. Between 2pm that afternoon and 6pm the following day, the town was bombarded with artillery fire. By the end of the two days, practically every building in the town was flattened, set on fire and/or looted. In all 2,483 persons – mainly women, children and the elderly were
Civitella 2: Interview with Uche Umez
Uche is the author of two collections of poem: Dark through the Delta, and Aridity of Feelings; a short story collection Tears in Her Eyes, and two children’s fiction: Sam and the Wallet and The Runaway Hero. ?The Boy Who…
Timeline of corporate human rights abuses in Nigeria
Platform have created this excellent Timeline which documents the actions and interactions of all those directly and indirectly involved with the exploration and exploitation of oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The timeline is based on the examination…
Africa still pumping oil in the age of solar!
An insightful talk by Nigerian environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey ?– “Africa still pumping oil in the age of solar”. Nnimmo advocates keeping the oil in the soil?and strong discounts the argument that oil is in any way beneficial to Nigeria…
Black Gold: “We are rebels of the struggle”
“Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta” is a feature film written and directed by Nigerian filmmaker, Jeta Amata. Based on the film synopsis, Black Gold sounds fairly straightforward. A ?community protests against multinational oil companies and the Nigerian…
Not a pretty picture: A short documentary on Nigeria
Via Sahara Reporters TV
No Spring in West Africa
Occupy Nigeria has come and gone.?Senegal’s?week of mass protests continues in sporadic outbursts and it remains to be seen if people will respond to Youssou N’dour’s call for a mass rally next Sunday. N’dour’s candidacy was suspiciously rejected by…
Was Nigeria a 14 day dream?
Is the Nigerian ‘revolution’ over? Was it just a brief moment in our history when everyone came together believing that this time things would be different? Or has there been a permanent shift in consciousness??Emmanuel Iduma?likens Nigeria’s 14-day revolt…
Is This The End of The Nigerian Revolution?
Something dies in you. You feel disconnected from your dream of a glorious aftermath. For the first time in your life you felt whole, framed within a bigger picture. You spoke, chanted, demanded. You were a witness, you and a…
Ken Saro-Wiwa on how it was, how it remains & how it could be
KSW reminds us of a struggle Nigerians have largely ignored or at best dismissed. The Nigerian media [pre social media] has to take major responsibility for the lack of information and analysis no doubt bullied as usual by military and…
Needing This Revolution
“La r??sistance est une forme de collaboration” — Albert Camus There are no groupings in my head. I am not being spoken for. No one will speak for me if I do not speak for myself. Tell this to those…
The Nigerian revolution just begun
On Monday 9 January, the first day of the Nigerian nationwide indefinite strike, my fellow blogger, Emmanuel Iduma, wrote a post?‘See, The Nigerian Revolution Has Begun’. Emmanuel is a young man, a writer, modest and maybe a little shy. Sometimes…
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