Climate Injustice in the Niger Delta - Speaker Event

Thursday 6th July

'Climate injustice in the Niger Delta: Ten years on from Ken Saro-Wiwa'

7-9 pm, Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford. £3/£2.

Ten years after the judicial murder of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
shocked the world, the communities of the Niger Delta in Nigeria continue
to bear the burden of our demand for oil with escalating violence and
environmental deterioration.

Now the climate change provoked by oil threatens to submerge the delta for
ever. COIN presents an evening of readings and poetry inspired by the
Niger Delta struggle.

Among the speakers will be:

James Marriott - co author of 'The Next Gulf: London, Washington and Oil
Conflict in Nigeria'. He is co-director of award winning social and
environmental justice group PLATFORM.

Ukoha Ukiwo - CRISE Scholar at the University of Oxford, whose research
focuses on comparative ethnic relations in the Niger Delta.

And Kathryn Nwajiaku – Research fellow at the University of Oxford, whose
research focuses on the Politics of Identity and Politics of Oil in
Nigeria. She is author of ‘Between Discourse and Reality: The Politics of
Oil and Ijaw Ethnic Nationalism in the Niger Delta’.

This event is presented in partnership with PLATFORM.