The Ogoni is an ethnic group located in Rivers South-East senatorial district of Rivers State, in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria. They number...
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Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), is a social movement organization representing the indigenous Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. The Ogoni contend that...
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The Ogoni Nine were a group of nine activists from the Ogoni region of Nigeria who opposed the operating practices of the Royal Dutch Shell oil corporation...
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Ken Saro-Wiwa (category Ogoni people)
producer, and environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger...
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Ogoni nationalism is a political ideology that seeks self determination by the Ogoni people. The Ogonis are one of the many indigenous peoples in the region...
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The Ogoni languages, or Kegboid languages, are the five languages of the Ogoni people of Rivers State, Nigeria. They fall into two clusters, East and...
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communities. In particular, when, in 1993 the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) organized large protests against Shell and the government, it...
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Iwoma, the Ogoni people (speakers of Ogoni/Kana/Khana), and to the east, the Obolo. The Defaka have a less cordial relationship with these peoples than with...
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David Ibiyeomie (category Living people)
have made prejudiced comments against the Ogoni people, leading the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People to demand that he apologise. In March 2017...
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region was the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). The group declared that the Ogoni people, a small minority in Rivers State of Nigeria...
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Conflict in the Niger Delta (section Ogoni crisis)
minority ethnic groups who feel they are being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw. Ethnic and political unrest continued throughout the 1990s...
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Oron, Ijaw, Isoko, Urhobo, Kalabari, Yoruba, Okrika, Ogoni, Epie-Atissa people and Obolo people, are among the inhabitants of the political Niger Delta...
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Ken Wiwa (category Ogoni people)
turbulent, both tragic, neither without hope. The book is also a song of the Ogoni people, a tribute to their struggle, their endurance. It is, moreover, a story...
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Owens Wiwa (category Ogoni people)
human rights activist. He is the brother of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the son of Ogoni chief Jim Wiwa. Wiwa is an internationally renowned...
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State Ethnic group: Ogoni people Proposed autonomous region: Ogoniland Advocacy group: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Madeira ethnic group:...
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distribute Ogoni territory to oil companies without any compensation. In 1990, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People was founded by Ogoni activist...
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Zina Saro-Wiwa (category Ogoni people)
Zina Saro-Wiwa (born 1976, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) is a Brooklyn-based video artist and filmmaker. She makes video installations, documentaries, music...
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(Okinawa Islands, Japan) Independence Day (Myanmar) Ogoni Day (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) World Braille Day January 5 National Bird Day...
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Noo Saro-Wiwa (category Ogoni people)
Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Noo Saro-Wiwa was born...
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(Assyrians) 2001–2005 Göran Hansson – (Scania) 2005–2006 Ledum Mitee – (Ogoni) 2006–2010 Ngawang Choephel Drakmargyapon – (Tibet) 2010–2015 Nasser Boladai...
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Kana (disambiguation) (section People)
leafhoppers An alternate name used for the Ogoni people of Nigeria Khana language, spoken by the Ogoni people of Nigeria Kana dialect, a variety of Cebuano...
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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) is a grass-roots social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta. MOSOP...
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Stateless nation (redirect from Stateless peoples)
nations can be dispersed across a number of states (for example, the Yoruba people found in the African states of Nigeria, Benin and Togo) or form the native...
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1995 of nine Ogoni activists, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was a founder of the nonviolent Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). Under...
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controversy Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Wiwa v Royal Dutch Shell People André Bénard John Jennings M. King Hubbert Fred Meissner...
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controversy Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Wiwa v Royal Dutch Shell People André Bénard John Jennings M. King Hubbert Fred Meissner...
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Wael Sawan (category Living people)
Global Witness called such levels of pay “eyewatering … at a time when people are struggling to pay bills” and has hit out at levels of spending on renewable...
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10 January 2022. Ogoni Study Group (Port Harcourt, Nigeria) (1995). Crisis in Ogoniland: The True Story. Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria: Ogoni Study Group. OCLC 47997162...
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controversy Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Wiwa v Royal Dutch Shell People André Bénard John Jennings M. King Hubbert Fred Meissner...
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the Kingdom of Bonny and the Ogoni people, though they generally maintain good relations with the latter. The Obolo people have migrated and settled in...
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