Nigeria
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Black Agenda Report – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into Continue reading
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Video: Shell on Trial: Landmark Trial Set to Begin Over Shell's Role in 1995 Execution of Nigerian Human Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
Fourteen years after the widely condemned execution of the acclaimed Nigerian writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the court will hear allegations that Shell was complicit in his torture and execution. Continue reading
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Video: "Massive Casualties Feared in Nigerian Military Attack on Niger Delta Villages"
Nigerian Joint Task Force troops, made up of the army, navy, air force and mobile police, launched an offensive on communities across Warri south and southwest government areas on 13 May after JTF troops were reported to have been attacked by armed groups in Delta state, according to Amnesty International. Continue reading
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Video: Nigeria – Sweet Crude Directed by Sandy Cioffi
“For fifty years, crude oil has been flowing from under the feet of the people of the Niger Delta. For fifty years, they have been promised that this would mean a better life. This promise has never been kept. Now, the people have had enough.” Continue reading
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The Case Against Shell: Landmark Human Rights Trial (Wiwa v. Shell)
In the early 1990s, following decades of Shell’s environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the Ogoni people of the region organized a non-violent movement against the oil company. Shell’s response? They armed, financed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military regime to repress the non-violent movement — leading to the torture and shootings… Continue reading
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Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 2
Only 14 when his father, Fela Kuti died, did his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Video: Music of Resistance – Seun Kuti – Part 1
Fela Kuti is one of the most significant musicians to ever come out of Sub-Sharan Africa. Through his music he confronted government corruption, multi-national corporations, and police brutality in Nigeria. Only 14 when his father died, his son Seun has decided to carry on his legacy. Music of Resistance went to meet him. Continue reading
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Hidden histories confirmed: So much for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’
24 November 2008 — williambowles.info “This we do by rigging the parliament through official majorities, a restricted franchise and so forth” — From the minutes of the British Colonial Office, 14 December, 1959 Back in June of 2006 I wrote a piece, based on a story in the New African magazine on how the British Continue reading
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Nigeria’s hidden history By William Bowles
This particular history haunts Africa to this day and one that the British Establishment have yet to pay for, for it resulted in the deaths of millions and almost led to the break-up of Nigeria. The results determined the nature of the Nigeria of today including all the talk about post-colonial ‘corruption’. And, it should… Continue reading
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As things fall apart… By William Bowles
All in all, the new year brings with it an imperium in disarray faced with a mountain of problems; political, economic and military, none of them solvable if it maintains the current trajectory of increased repression at home and the inability to launch more diversionary adventures abroad. Perhaps its proxy Israel will be let off… Continue reading
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Bush in the Bush William Bowles
Today, Bush arrives in Senegal where he’ll visit Goree Island, one of the locations from which an estimated 20 million slaves started their long journey to the Americas. Half of the 20 million never made it. And no doubt, Bush will make a speech about America’s commitment to ‘freedom’ and to Africa, blah-blah-blah…. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 