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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Niger Delta</title>
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		<title>Black Gold: &#8220;We are rebels of the struggle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/black-gold-we-are-rebels-of-the-struggle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Black Gold: The Struggle of the Niger Delta&#8221; 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 government but to little effect. Enter militants and war is declared. Its not possible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not a pretty picture:  A short documentary on Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/not-a-pretty-picture-a-short-documentary-on-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militarism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty in Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Sahara Reporters TV]]></description>
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		<title>No Spring in West Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/02/no-spring-in-west-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Spring]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[senegal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 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 the Constitutional Council on the grounds he was unable to collect the necessary 10,000 signatures. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Was Nigeria a 14 day dream?</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/was-nigeria-a-14-day-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/was-nigeria-a-14-day-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Fuel Subsidy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Uprising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pambazuka News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 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 to a dream from which we awoke and returned to normalcy. ‘The horizon of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ken Saro-Wiwa on how it was, how it remains &amp; how it could be</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/ken-saro-wiwa-on-how-it-was-and-how-it-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/ken-saro-wiwa-on-how-it-was-and-how-it-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Movements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Saro-Wiwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria's Oil Cabal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ogoni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 pseudo military governments including Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s. He reminds us of our right to stand up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nigerian revolution just begun</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/9245/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 there is hesitancy about his writing, as if he is not quite sure whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the condition of Nigeria by Nigerians….</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2012/01/nigeria-by-nigerians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uprisings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuel Subsidy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger Delta women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion and the Nigerian state]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three excellent insightful articles by Nigerians on Nigeria with my brief comments. “People In The Niger Delta Now Recognize That Jonathan Is A Waste Of Time” – Isaac Osuoka Issac Osuoka is a long time environmental and social justice activist from the Niger Delta and a founding member of the IYC and more recently Social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;He cursed the earth for spouting oil &#8211; black gold they called it!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/he-cursed-the-earth-for-spouting-oil-black-gold-they-called-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/he-cursed-the-earth-for-spouting-oil-black-gold-they-called-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assault on Dissent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Obituary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“And as I was going, I was just thinking how the war have spoiled my town Dukana, uselessed many people, killed many others, killed my mama and my wife, Agnes, my beautiful young wife with J.J.C and now it have made me like porson wey get leprosy because I have no town again. And I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Normalisation of oil pollution and violence in the Niger Delta</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/normalisation-of-oil-pollution-and-violence-in-the-niger-delta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/11/normalisation-of-oil-pollution-and-violence-in-the-niger-delta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict Mining/Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bamako 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Osodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miliartism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new series of photos from Nigerian photo activist George Osodi presented at Bamako 2011. The series shows &#8220;the duality of life&#8221; in the Niger Delta where oil pollution and violence have become a normalised everyday part of life &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Report finds Shell complicit in human rights abuses &amp; payments to militants</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/report-finds-shell-complicit-in-human-rights-abuses-payments-to-militants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2011/10/report-finds-shell-complicit-in-human-rights-abuses-payments-to-militants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report has found that Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants. The report, called Counting the Cost, is published by Platform and a coalition of NGOs and featured in todays UK Guardian. The report, uncovers how Shell’s routine payments to armed militants exacerbated conflicts, in one [...]]]></description>
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