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A Call for Justice
The Niger Delta is a territory under siege. This siege did not begin today. It didn’t begin yesterday. The siege has been prominent since the 15th Century. The siege has disrupted our ways of living, our communities, our cultures, and our spirituality. It has brought...
Ikarama Paradox
There are communities in the Niger Delta that would compete to have the dubious notoriety of being the oil spills capital of the world due to the regularity of oil spill incidents they experience. Ikarama community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State is...
Learning for Change
The wise is a knowledge holder and keeper. Learning is a lifelong process. In other words, we never graduate from the schools of life as long as we are still on planet earth. We learn to walk, to speak intelligibly and we learn to be part of our communities. Many...
Fiddling while the Planet Burns
The third report to emerge from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the span of eight months has again exposed the folly of humankind on its addiction to dirty energy sources. The report clearly shows that there must be significant reduction in the...
Oil, Rot and Divestment
The reason why persons or corporations make investments is dependent on the expected or desired outcomes. The same can be said of why investors divest. Investments are predominantly made for profit. For instance, a corporation would estimate how much profit would...
Reject Seed Colonialism in Africa
It has often been said that one of the ways to colonize a people is by dismantling or subverting their culture. This pathway is also effective for building dependency and disrupting the systems that organically secures the health of the populations. In terms of...
By Me We Spoke
Stolen Across swollen waters To you, thousands of us were Pieces of wood, tusks, brass To tickle the fancies of heartless merchants and enablers of violence But you were wrong. A heist of brass and wood and ivory Murderous desecration of our revered palace Over a...
A Dirge for Fossil Capitalism
Having lived millions of years In the bowel of the Earth With occasional forays to the surface You lent yourself to be used as mortar And sometimes tar Sometimes you trapped folks in pits as in Sodom and Gomorrah But finally, some clever folks...
Time for a Peoples’ COP
THE 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) took place from 31 October to 13 November 2021 and had a loud, but uncertain achievement. No, this was not just about the Glasgow Climate Pact which...
COP26: Injury Time
12 years ago We were already in Injury Time Fighting for a temperature target of 1C Today Nature has been patient enough So patient not to call off the game Though the ball has left the pitch Nature has given humans a moment to think This is extra time in Injury...
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