A Salute to Human Resilience
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity –Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013. The world is witnessing an onslaught against human rights defenders perhaps more than at any other time in history. …
Praise for Oil Politics
Praise for Oil Politics – Echoes of Ecological Wars: This is what highly respected thinkers and writers have to say about this new book. Get a copy and share your own thoughts! Nnimmo Bassey embodies the thinker, w…
The Gap Between Solid Minerals and Oil
The National Assembly and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources occupy key vantage points to leverage calm in the oil fields of the Niger Delta. They can make this happen by having communities take their place as true stak…
Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars
Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars This is to announce Oil Politics – echoes of Ecological Wars a forthcoming book by Nnimmo Bassey published by Daraja Press. Set out in seven sections, this book of 54 essays deals…
Blood Cattle
Blood Cattle: With so much blood shed so that cattle may roam roughshod over the land, it does make sense for us to rethink our meat production and consumption patterns. Violent conflicts have become so pervasive in Nige…
Burning Africa with the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement will see to the sinking of Small Island states and the roasting of Africa – a continent uniquely exposed to the vagaries of global warming. Of what use is it for poor vulnerable nations to smile…
New PIB and forgotten Host Communities?
While no one can say that the Nigerian petroleum resources sector is known for transparency, most would readily agree that it wields a lot of power. The sector has effectively determined the political, economic, social a…
Arrival of The Last Militant
The word militant elicits a certain meaning in Nigeria and like the word insurgents people often link it with violence. Another word that has taken on peculiar meaning in Nigeria is restiveness – a descriptive word assig…
A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories
The Bus, a sculptural memorial in honour of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel, and John Kpuine was shipped to Nigeria from the United Kingdom…
Who Blows UP Niger Delta Pipelines? (Explosive Oil fields of the Niger Delta)
Recent bombings of oil pipelines in the Niger Delta again raise the spectre of escalation of conflicts in the region. While we cannot say the reasons for the incidents, it does appear to be calculated acts of sabotage ra…
The Secure and the Dispossessed
This is a synopsis of the great book, THE SECURE AND THE DISPOSSESSED, from the TNI staple: What if government and corporate elites have given up on the idea of stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its con…
