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Extractions: CONTENTS : Sorry, this feature is currently unavailable Ken Saro-Wiwa Those of us present at the launch of the ogoni community association - UK in 1994 never dreamt that it was to be the last time we would meet Ken. Though we knew he was returning to the dangers of Nigeria, farewells were light, filled with the belief that his resilience would never let him down. I don't believe it ever did. From the early 1990's until November 9th last year, Ken's assertions concerning the situation in Ogoni were regarded by many as self-serving exaggerations. Prominent amongst them was the violence that the military would unleash in order to suppress their peaceful movement for a clean environment and social equity. At a meeting of Ogoni leaders in Bori on October 3rd, 1993, he said, "The extermination of Ogoni people appears to be official policy." Ken's choice of words in describing Shell's operations as "ecological genocide" and "developmental racism" were also in some parties patronisingly regarded as an author's use of hyperbole.
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Extractions: by Michael Fleshman, Human Rights Coordinator, The Africa Fund The immediate cause of the crisis was a 1997 decision by now deceased dictator General Sani Abacha to relocate a Local Government Authority (effectively a town council) in Warri from a district occupied by the majority Ijaw people to that of the minority Itsekeris. The move was made to bolster the despised dictator's political fortunes and to punish the Ijaw community for its increasingly visible opposition to his regime. Resentment in the Ijaw community boiled over on Inauguration Day, May 29, when Ijaw activists protested the installation of an Itsekeri politician at the head of the disputed LGA, triggering clashes between the communities and spilling over to the Urhobo community, whose young men have also battled armed Itsekeri youth. Western press reports and the oil companies have focused on the ethnic character of the violence to portray it as "tribal warfare" unrelated to the decade-long struggle by the various minority peoples of the Niger Delta oil fields against the oil companies and military rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nigerian human rights and environmental activists, trade union and religious leaders and elected officials say that the failure of both theAbacha and Abubakar military regimes to redress local grievances, the deliberate manipulation of ethnic tension by the military and gross economic exploitation and environmental destruction of the minority communities by the oil companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the region to the very edge of survival and fueled a desperate competition between them for what little resources are available.
Extractions: Nigeria: Report on the Crisis in the Niger Delta The Africa Fund 50 Broad Street, Suite 711 New York, NY 10004 USA Tel: (212) 785-1024 Fax: (212) 785-1078 Nigeria Transition Watch Dateline: Lagos, Nigeria, June 10, 1999 Report on the Crisis in the Niger Delta by Michael Fleshman Human Rights Coordinator, The Africa Fund The violence that has devastated the city of Warri near Chevron's Escravos tank farm is only the most recent and most tragic manifestation of the rage sweeping the impoverished communities of Nigeria's oil fields after decades of repression and exploitation by military dictatorships and western oil companies. Since the current violence began in late May, 600 homes have been destroyed, as many as 300 people have died and thousands more have fled the city center and outlying residential districts to escape attacks by hundreds of young men in military uniforms armed with machine guns and assault rifles. The days old civilian government of newly elected President Olusegun Obasanjo rushed thousands of troops into the area and declared a dusk-to-dawn curfew on June 8 in an effort to contain the fighting. The Nigerian pressreported yesterday, June 9, that a tense calm had been established, punctuated by sporadic clashes between the opposing sides and with the security forces on the outskirts of town. The immediate cause of the crisis was a 1997 decision by now deceased dictator General Sani Abacha to relocate a Local Government Authority (effectively a town council) in Warri from a district occupied by the majority Ijaw people to that of the minority Itsekeris. The move was made to bolster the despised dictator's political fortunes and to punish the Ijaw community for its increasingly visible opposition to his regime. Resentment in the Ijaw community boiled over on Inauguration Day, May 29, when Ijaw activists protested the installation of an Itsekeri politician at the head of the disputed LGA, triggering clashes between the communities and spilling over to the Urhobo community, whose young men have also battled armed Itsekeri youth. Western press reports and the oil companies have focused on the ethnic character of the violence to portray it as "tribal warfare" unrelated to the decade-long struggle by the various minority peoples of the Niger Delta oil fields against the oil companies and military rule. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nigerian human rights and environmental activists, trade union and religious leaders and elected officials say that the failure of both theAbacha and Abubakar military regimes to redress local grievances, the deliberate manipulation of ethnic tension by the military and gross economic exploitation and environmental destruction of the minority communities by the oil companies have driven the indigenous peoples of the region to the very edge of survival and fueled a desperate competition between them for what little resources are available. Warri, like other towns in the oil fields, presents a harsh contrast of staggering wealth and appalling poverty.Heavily guarded oil company compounds with paved streets, swimming pools, satellite telephones and supermarkets sit yards away from villages without electricity, running water or a school. By law, Nigeria's oil wealth and the land above it is owned by the Federal government, not by the local communities. For decades Nigeria's ruling generals and the oil companies have extracted billions of dollars a year from these communities and returned virtually none in the form of jobs, health care, or education. Oil spills and decades of pollution and acid rain from gas flaring have destroyed the livelihoods of the indigenous people. Compensation for the devastating effects of oil production is always inadequate, often unpaid, and commonly stolen by corrupt traditional leaders beholden to the Federal government in far-away Abuja for their positions, and to oil company patronage for money. The small sums of money doled out by the national government to LGAs for salaries and administration are often the only real source of income in local communities, making control of local governments a life-and-death matter, dividing communities along ethnic lines and weakening collective action against abusive government and corporate policies. The reality of the current tragedy was summed up in an commentary in the current edition of the respected weekly Tempo newspaper. "The animosity, actually, is not among the feuding communities. Rather it is a sort of resentment against the state which exploits the oil yielding billions of dollars and leaves the area underdeveloped. And when such animosity lasts too long, the concerned people start suspecting one another of collaborating with the enemy or of being too passive with him. Hence the inter-communal clashes, which only justice in the sharing of oil revenue can solve in the long run." The outstanding head of the Nigerian oil workers union Pengassan, former prisoner of conscience Milton Dabibi, told me last night that only the immediate intervention of the Obasanjo government, and the establishment of a credible dialogue between the communities, the government and the oil companies on a fundamental restructuring of economic and political institutions in the region can bring an end to the bloody crisis in Nigeria's oil fields. In recent weeks he has traveled extensively throughout the Niger Delta, including Warri, to establish just that dialogue. His initiatives deserve the full backing of the international community. But to date the major multi-national producers, Shell, Mobil and Chevron have refused to support it. Dabibi had high praise for President Obasanjo's efforts to resolve the Warri crisis. The President is expected to fly to Warri on Friday to meet with leaders of the communities in Warri to end the fighting. But until the legitimate demands of the peoples of the Niger Delta for control of their land and resources, for economic and social justice and for an end to repression are met, the political fires raging in the Delta will continue to burn. Michael Fleshman is traveling in Nigeria for a month. Founded in 1966 by the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund works for a positive U.S. policy toward Africa and supports African human rights, democracy and development. Contact: The Africa Fund, 50 Broad Street, Suite 711, New York, NY 10004 USA. Tel: (212) 785-1024. Fax: (212) 785-1078. E-mail: africafund@igc.apc.org website: www.prairienet.org/acas/afund.html.
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Extractions: University of Rochester, USA A paper presented at a conference on The Legacy of Slavery: Unequal Exchange held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, May 2-4, 2002 This paper is based on Professor Joseph Inikori's Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Description of Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development: Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological development, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of Englands industrialization process over the period, 1650-1850. The contribution of Africans, the central focus of the book, is measured in terms of the role of diasporic Africans in large-scale commodity production in the Americas of which expanding Atlantic commerce was a function at a time when demographic and other socioeconomic conditions in the Atlantic basin encouraged small-scale production by independent populations, largely for subsistence. This is the first detailed study of the role of overseas trade in the Industrial Revolution. It revises inward-looking explanations that have dominated the field in recent decades, and shifts the assessment of African contribution away from the debate on profits.
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Extractions: This posting contains several documents updating the situation in the oil-rich Delta region in Nigeria, including (1) the Kaiama Declaration from a conference of Ijaw youth, distributed by Project Underground, (2) excerpts from an update by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and (3) a press release from MOSOP on formation of a new security task force for the Delta. Additional relevant background documents can be found in the postings on the shell-nigeria-action listserv, archived at: http://www.essential.org/listproc/shell-nigeria-action/ +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE KAIAMA DECLARATION BEING COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE ALL IJAW YOUTHS CONFERENCE
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Extractions: This posting contains two letters to President Clinton on policy toward Nigeria. One focuses on a range of issues and is from groups that are members of the Washington-based International Roundtable on Nigeria (IRTON) and Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA). The other focuses specifically on the Niger Delta, signed by groups around the world associated with the Delta, as well as individuals and other groups. Two related postings yesterday included a statement from the Africa Fund and the Africa Policy Information Center, and excerpts from the new book on Nigeria: This House Has Fallen. +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ August 21, 2000
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Extractions: I chose to address the first of my five letters to politically significant Nigerians to you for three key reasons. You are one of Africa's foremost historians. Your body of work stand out as a testimony to a life of committed scholarship and a passionate engagement with the troubles of the African world and how they might be remedied. The African world salute you, Dr Bala Usman. Secondly, you have played, and indeed continue to play, a very important role in the shaping of the Nigerian state since the end of the civil war in January 1970 as critic, analyst, and adviser to significant politicians and sundry public figures. Thirdly, and perhaps most crucially, you are northern Nigeria's leading political thinker today in a season when Nigeria itself is on the brink. The actions and strategies of people of your class in the north in the coming months will determine whether Nigeria will, at long last, make that important transition to a nation capable of managing her political affairs sensibly and amicably without thugs and thieves masquerading as 'Fellow Nigerians' in army uniform forcing their way into the arena uninvited. and citizenship, and how the conflicting logic of these two phenomena might be reconciled to sire the Nigeria of contented and prosperous citizens that has been the object of your labours these past three decades. Your withering critique of the work of the 1976 Constitution Drafting Committee hold true today as when you, along with your colleague, Dr Segun Osoba, wrote your influential Minority Report twenty-five years ago.
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Extractions: Bruce Onobrakpeya is one of Africa's most prominent artists. Known originally as a printmaker, he has since transcended his craft by producing works in a wide range of media, some of his own invention. His works of art range from commissioned works in cathedrals, paintings found in the world's greatest museums, to mass-produced prints, which hang on the walls of many of Africa's modest homes. (He produces all his work in his Ovuomaroro Studio and Gallery. The prints are made there and intentionally priced to he affordable). Sharon Pruitt wrote in her article "Over Thirty Years After the Revolution," that the young artist's main "concern was to merge cultural and artistic dilemmas from Nigeria's pre-colonial, colonial and independence period." After graduating in 1962, Onobrakpeya taught for 16 years, beginning from 1963 in St. Gregory's College, Lagos. At the end of his tenure he opened the Ovoomaroro Studio and Gallery. Ovuomaroro is the name of Onobrakpeya's paternal grandmother and means self examination that leads to self-knowledge and self-development. He explained that the purpose of the studio was to "produce art works that will be within the reach of the average person," and to raise "printmaking from a minor art to a major one, through experiments with ideas and materials. " In addition to the training of apprentices at the Ovuomaroro Studio, Onobrakpeya holds short-term workshops to encourage and train young artists. One such workshop is the annual Hamattan Workshop. The workshop, which runs for a month, allows artists to work uninterrupted, in an environment that encourages creativity and experimentation. Onobrakpeya hopes to develop a new cadre of young artists who will interact with the community and reflect traditional "time honoured" communal values in their works.
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Extractions: Issue No. 458 Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Egypt Region International Economy ... Letters By Gamal Nkrumah There is no greater irony in the entire post-Cold War scenario than the failure of strong American world-leadership to restore nerve and vigour to the developing world of the South. Indeed, many countries in the South are now not so much developing as stagnating, or even worse, declining. As they thus revert to pre-colonial conditions, they inevitably come to qualify as ripe for re-colonisation. In his recent broadside, The New Military Humanism, Noam Chomsky lays out for all to see the blatant and shameless hypocrisy of US intervention in trouble spots around the globe. The Americans have taken it upon themselves to be the stout-hearted trouble-shooters of this brave new world. Yet, argues Chomsky, their selectivity is nauseatingly Machiavellian. The thesis is immediately engaging, especially for those of us in the so-called Third World, for its refusal to apply itself to such red herrings as: Is socialism still relevant? Is the capitalist system in crisis? Is internationalism dead? Who cares? Well, we the wronged majority do. Africa observed the 12th annual World AIDS Day on 1 December with a terrible trepidation. The number of HIV-infected individuals on the continent now stands at a horrendous 22.5 million. On 9 July 1999, US Vice President Al Gore announced a new Clinton Administration initiative to address the global AIDS pandemic, specifically in Africa and India. Over 95 per cent of all HIV-infected individuals are in the South.
Extractions: Volume 5, Number 19, December 22, 2000 project underground home site search More than 50 people were killed when a fuel pipeline caught fire near the fishing village of Ebute-Oko near the city of Lagos. Huts and wooden houses were engulfed in flames, and many of the dead were reported to be fisherfolk burned alive in their dugout canoes. This tragedy is one in a series that have torn through Niger Delta communities this year, while human rights abuses attributed to oil operations continue despite national and international outcry. In June, a pipeline near the Egborode village in Okpe Local Government Area ruptured and spewed petroleum products into the Omugba River, which runs through villages farmlands and forest, ultimately affecting a 30 kilometer-wide area. The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had been notified of the leakage, but Environmental Rights Action (ERA), a Nigeria-based organization, reports that NNPC did nothing about the leakage until it exploded on July 10. ERA reports that nearly 3,000 people were burnt to death in the explosion. In response to these kinds accidents, oil companies accuse local people of sabotage and, as a result,the government has set up a "pipeline vandalization task force" which has already carried out extrajudicial executions.
Nigeria: Delta Update, Wed, 30 Dec 1998 the continuos survival of the indigenous peoples of the 5. Ijaw youths and peopleswill promote the to our neighbors the Itsekiri, Ilaje, urhobo, Isoko, Edo http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Urgent_Action/apic_123098.html
Extractions: +security/peace+ Summary Contents: This posting contains several documents updating the situation in the oil-rich Delta region in Nigeria, including (1) the Kaiama Declaration from a conference of Ijaw youth, distributed by Project Underground, (2) excerpts from an update by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and (3) a press release from MOSOP on formation of a new security task force for the Delta. Additional relevant background documents can be found in the postings on the shell-nigeria-action listserv, archived at: http://www.essential.org/listproc/shell-nigeria-action/ +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THE KAIAMA DECLARATION BEING COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE ALL IJAW YOUTHS CONFERENCE WHICH HELD IN THE TOWN OF KAIAMA THIS 11TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1998. [For more information: Steve Kretzmann, Oil Campaign Director Project Underground: Supporting communities threatened by the mining and oil industries 1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA, 94703 510-705-8982 - office; 510-705-8983 - fax E-mail: steve@moles.org; web: http://www.moles.org]
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Extractions: USA: Nigeria Policy, Letters Date distributed (ymd): 000822 Document reposted by APIC +++++++++++++++++++++Document Profile+++++++++++++++++++++ Region: West Africa Issue Areas: +political/rights+ +economy/development+ +security/peace+ +US policy focus+ Summary Contents: This posting contains two letters to President Clinton on policy toward Nigeria. One focuses on a range of issues and is from groups that are members of the Washington-based International Roundtable on Nigeria (IRTON) and Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA). The other focuses specifically on the Niger Delta, signed by groups around the world associated with the Delta, as well as individuals and other groups. Two related postings yesterday included a statement from the Africa Fund and the Africa Policy Information Center, and excerpts from the new book on Nigeria: This House Has Fallen. +++++++++++++++++end profile++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ August 21, 2000 President William Jefferson Clinton The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC Dear Mr. President:
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Extractions: zielgruppen ... area studies Hier sammeln wir Netzquellen zur Landeskunde. rubriken ergänzen administrieren Allgemeines A+ Country Reports A+ Country Reports offers a wealth of information on all of the countries of the world: up-to-date information on population, geography, economy, history, and politics. Background Notes Database of the U.S. Department of State for all countries CIA World Factbook The data cover 266 countries as well as the "world". For each country, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the Factbook gives information on geography, populations, economies, communications infrastructures, and armed forces. Countries and Regions Informationsangebot der World Bank für Schulen Country Briefings News, country profiles, forecasts, statistics and more (Economist) Country Studies (LOC) This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Country at a Glance Find out basic information about countries all over the world. This United Nations site allows you to click on the name of the country and discover its flag, geographical facts, currency information, and other important data.
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Extractions: GUOSA AFRICAN CULTURAL CENTER, The Guosa Language: (A Pan Nigerian and West African Sub-Regional Language) By: Alex G. Igbineweka guosalanguage2@aol.com OR guosa_language02@yahoo.com The Guosa African Cultural Center is a diverse multi-cultural center located temporarily on 647 16th Street, Unit A, Richmond, California 94801. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of the Guosa Language African Cultural Center is to acquaint Western Civilization and the Asians world with the Guosa Language. A Pan Nigerian and West African Sub-Regional Language , Guosa is one of the worlds oldest language/cultural groups. Resulting from the ever transforming Nigerian, West African Sub-Regional languages. Guosa is influencing the cultures and nations of West Africa as the sub regional countries rise to meet the challenging socio-political global civilization. The Edo language is one of the States capitals central languages spoken by the Edo people of Edo State in Nigeria. The language dates back to the pre-historic existence of the old Benin Kingdom which swept across the coastal territories of West Africa between the 12 th Century B.C. and 1950s AD
