Tweet 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 see Nnimmo’s Reflections
Redux: Odi & Filling Nigeria’s Memory Hole
February 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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.”
“We Remember Differently” – Oil is Everything in Nigeria
November 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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*
November 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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
From Oil City to Book Central!
August 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tweet My friend, Richard Ali, has also written about Port Harcourt as the World Book Capital City 2014. I consider his thoughts refined, and even apposite. Here is an excerpt: The sense of achievement in this win is seen at the popular level, but the significance of this win is even clearer amongst writers such [...]
Port Harcourt: An Outpost City
July 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
Tweet My short essay on the successful bid for Port Harcourt as the World Book Capital for 2014 by the Rainbow Book Club appears in YNaija. Here’s a short excerpt: “Port Harcourt as the World Book Capital of 2014 will thrust books, and literature into public glare. It is not the case that Nigerians and [...]
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