Climate change: Hangman of the poor
Climate change: Hangman of the poor Climate change affects the world unevenly and it is developing countries which, though not historically liable for it, that have to bear the brunt of its adverse effects. Nnimmo Bassey…
Climate Change and the World of Labour
Time for Green Labour Revolution The launch of the Climate Policy must be followed by massive awareness creation on shop floors and board rooms. The capacity of workers must be enhanced through trainings so that the comi…
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…
Flying on Lake Turkana to Turkana
Flying on Lake Turkana to Turkana – Interconnectivity of struggles – part 2 Sometime in 2017 Kenya will begin to pump crude oil in commercial quantities. For some years now prospecting companies have been p…
Deconsecrated for Coal
Deconsecrated for Coal: Interconnectivity of struggles – part 1 One of the most jolting statements I have heard in recent times was at a Climate Camp, and Summer School on Skills for System Change, in Rhineland, wh…
Time for Real Climate Action
Time for real climate action. Polluting countries must do their fair share of emissions reduction and that should be at source, not through carbon markets. I thank President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Environme…
Super Evacuation Highway
Government says the Superhighway is essential as an evacuation route for the proposed deep sea port on the Atlantic coastline. What we are not told is where the goods (or indeed, what goods) would be evacuated to! Will t…
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…
Road, Yes; Displacement, NO!
The Health of Mother Earth Foundation, HOMEF, organized a two- day Community dialogue and an Environmental Impact Assessment EIA training for communities that will be critically impacted by the proposed Digital Superh…
When the Land Bleeds
A day at Ogoni was a homecoming of sorts for me yesterday when the global wave of #BreakFree actions touched down at Bori. The resolve of the Ogoni to peacefully and determinedly fight ecocide is legendary. The women, wi…
Break Free at Ogoni – Silence is Treason!
The MOSOP Peace Centre, Bori, Ogoni is a very significant location in the history of the struggle for a safe Niger Delta in which our peoples live in peace and in dignity and struggle for their rights non-violently. It i…
Oloibiri: A monument to Fossil Fuels
Break Free from Fossil Fuels actions commenced in Nigeria today, 10th May 2016, with a rally at Oil Well 1, Nigeria’s first oil well drilled in 1956. It was a gathering of hundreds of citizens, including community chiefs…
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…
In Defence of Life – a new Documentary by Gaia Foundation
“It’s about grabbing a part of the Earth and placing a mark of ownership on something that actually owns you. It doesn’t add up.” In this interview poet, Earth Defender and Right Livelihood Award …
