by Nnimmo | Dec 5, 2025 | Alternatives, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Colonialism, Governance, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The African Union (AU) has “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” as its theme of the year 2025. This theme arose from the Accra 2023 Reparations Conference. In line with the theme, the government of Algeria and the African Union...
by Nnimmo | May 15, 2025 | Alternatives, Climate Change, Development alternatives, Keynote, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
We remind ourselves that genocide is an international crime under the Rome Statutes and is defined as “the deliberate and systemic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race” (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The report...
by Nnimmo | Mar 25, 2025 | Analysis, Corporate Capture, Environment, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Environment is the tangible and intangible surroundings and the complex ecosystem that humans share with all beings, human and non-human, living and non-living. It is both visible and invisible. This includes the land, water, and the air, and all that live in them. It...
by Nnimmo | Feb 3, 2025 | Alternatives, Analysis, Climate Change, Development alternatives, Environment, Governance, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
Today we are considering the state of our ocean—not as a commodity to be exploited, but as a common good that sustains life, livelihoods, our culture and spirituality. Our ocean is under siege, and the communities that depend on it bear the brunt of pollution,...
by Nnimmo | Feb 1, 2025 | Alternatives, Culture, Development alternatives, Poetry, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth, Stories
“…all classical traditions of world literature are fostered by environments where there are intensive struggles against great evils for the restoration of human dignity.” – G. G. Darah, “Revolutionary Pressures in the Literature of the Niger Delta” The Community...
by Nnimmo | Dec 19, 2023 | Analysis, Climate Change, Climate/Ecological Crimes, Corporate Capture, Development alternatives, Dirty Energy, Environment, Governance, Militarism, Policy, Rights of Nature/Mother Earth
The foundation for voluntary emissions cut by nations was laid in the Copenhagen Accord (2009) and consolidated in the Paris Agreement (2015) under what is known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). The voluntary mechanism essentially blunted the...
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