Written by Uchenna Osigwe Monday, 09 November 2009 17:38
“When I was contemplating the struggle, I knew it was going to require a lot of energy, patience and money,” Ken writes in his prison memoirs A Month and A Day (which I am paraphrasing here since somebody has permanently borrowed my copy). Of those three things, Ken said he knew he had a lot of energy, that if he did not have patience he could cultivate it. But concerning the last one, money, he knew he had no money anywhere in the world. So, instead of waiting to win a lottery, Ken became a business man. But because his foray into business was for a higher purpose, it could only be a transitory phase. He knew when his trading career had served its purpose and then, even though he had become a very successful business man, had to call it quits in order to devote his energy to the Ogoni struggle. He did not succumb to the joys of money making and its attendant greed and glories.
Read more: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the question of leadership in Nigeria.
Written by Tare Anthony Wednesday, 29 July 2009 06:30
Amnesty International is a credible organisation with a history of thoroughness in its research and presentation of it facts and figures. It recently did a report on the operations of Shell in Nigeria and the following questions where raised which requires an answer from the oldest self serving oil firm in Nigeria.
Read more: 20 questions Amnesty International would like Shell to answer on the Niger Delta
Written by Elegbede Dipo Sunday, 26 July 2009 01:05
I have at a certain point poured out my mind on the Niger Delta siege. Probably for the sake of emphasis, the only thing that has sustained this crisis is the irresponsibility of the Nigerian government.
Having said that, i want to quickly excuse myself from the rank of any Yoruba race the OPC may be arguing to represent.
