The Ken Saro-Wiwa Story | Greed, Betrayal and the Battle for Nigeria's Oil Money
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- Of all the casualties of the unholy post-war alliance between the Nigerian military state and big oil, the Ogoni people were arguably amongst the worst hit. With the full blessing of the Nigerian government, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company was authorised to explore and extract oil from Ogoniland. While this was a win-win deal for Nigeria’s military generals and the oil giant, Shell’s entry into the region quickly became nothing short of a living nightmare for the Ogoni people.
Having grown sick and tired of the military government’s complicity in the devastation of his ancestral land, Ken Saro-Wiwa spearheaded the creation of a pressure group known as the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (popularly known as MOSOP). This is the story of the most prominent martyr in the fight against big oil in Nigeria.
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Interesting Video
would appreciate link to the soundtracks i like them it gets me going
Corruption and Greed? But wait, there's more! Murder for profit! Oh boy! I just loooooooves me some crapitalism!
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Quite literally the only serious channel on historical African affairs. Absolutely wonderful. A true gem!
There are many others actually and I follow all of them: African biographic, Afristory productions and of course New Africa.
True that
Couldn’t agree more
True. Are they related to the New African magazine?
Couldn't have said it better myself👏👏👏👏
New africa has pooled the wool out of my eyes, here in Greece we never talk about Africa and when we do it's always in the form of pity for her destitute, or intellectuals mentioning her colonial past and that Europeans are the only ones to blame. But like in Greece, where we have made the worst mistakes with our economy and diplomacy, people always blame the Germans or the Europeans in general, never thought i'd find so many similarities with African nations. Greetings from beautiful Greece!!!
pulled ok i get it i dont know english
I am in Greece right now
Yea, easy to blame everyone else other than ones self, way too convenient. At first it was colonialism, the foreign involvements. Noone has paused to think we might actually be the course of our own problem.
@@doxasept2286 no the facts aren't there, it's your own theory.
But let me endulge you a wee bit and assume for a second what you're saying is right for a moment, so it's one of our own who would accept their proposals and implement them, it's not like in colonial times when the foreigners are in charge. We control our own affairs, we can decide to accept the offers of Europeans or listen to their advices or not, our choice.
Greece is the most beautiful country of all the Mediterranean countries, it just has bad leaders, from a Nigerian living in Spain 🤙🏿
“Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues”
The lord didn’t take all of his soul, because part of it is still here in every Nigerian who fights for a better future
@Jason Stark But why do we have to Band together? Are the French bound with UK, Italy, Germany etc in Europe? Why can't the North let the Igbos be? They don't like the South especially Igbos but yet want to share same country with people you hate.
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@Jason Stark that's a good idea...but the ones in power are greedy and want everything for themselves
@Jason Stark Stop your self deceit..
Nigeria has lots of brutal history I hope the day to see visionary leaders rule Nigeria.
Still ruled by the Generals
As in!! Plenty!!
@@AnalystTosh yup...till this day.
The Dictators just converted to politicians
no joke
Thomas Sankara was the last of the great West African heads of state, and paid for it with his life.
"precious black toxin" - never have I come across a phrase that more aptly captures the role crude oil has played in shaping the present and future of humanity and of this planet
Even our former Kenyan dictator, Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, was offended by the killing? That's how bad it is when another poor leader has to call you out.
They were just virtue signaling, just like the West.
his son just betrayed our leaders
moi was not adictator he held our country together and kept the peace when every other country in africa was fraying
@FRANCIS he was a dictator!!
@@francisjoseph3849 Dictators don't always have to be bad.
People of Nigeria love murtala Mohammed, despite the fact that he was a dictator
Editing 💯
Narration 💯
Authenticity 💯
Objectivity 💯
Lovely page
Ojukwu thought he was fighting Nigeria but didn't know he was going to fight Britain.
I’ve never been this emotional over a CZcams video. What happened to Ken just shows how brutal and evil life can be to people who stand up for what’s right. I hope his family and loved ones have found peace.
And all that was caused by a Comedian? Damn, underrated man.
No joke!
Like PLO Lumumba said corruption killed more people than wars in Africa. Corruption, The neverending story of Nigeria.
Extremely unique, unbiased channel. Love the content.
Damn, i forgot how good the narrator was too.
Nigeria is not a country, it's a business, a shrewd business.
It's more like a warlord property
@@tyvamakes5226 that too
I cry for Ken Saro Wiwa when I remember him. He and the other 8 didn't have to be killed. He was a brilliant innocent man who stood up for his people. I had just gone into university there when he was hanged. The Nigerian northerners inhumanity to the Southerners will never be forgotten. May Ken Saro Wiwa and the others continue to rest in peace. Can't stop crying now. No one deserves to die that way.
The military were brutal and wrong in so many ways, but even from the story you heard, ken Saro wiwa wasn’t a saint, he himself resulted to killings as a means of pressing home his demand. The did kidnappings and indirectly encouraged mobbing of relatives that disagreed with their means. It was no coincidence that some of his kinsmen started distancing themselves from the movement. It’s like Nnamdi Kanu of today, IPOB is as brutal as the state whom they claim to fight against.
@@Relevance4life do you have evidence to this unusual allegations.. until then you shouldn't be taken seriously..
awaiting your own well resesrch and unbiased evidence...
Ken wasn't so innocent you know. He betrayed the Igbo as well after the war. Then Nigeria happened to Ogoni people then that is when he did what he did. But we have not being straight because we are not united.
Oil is easily the most destabilising thing on Earth. Great video as usual bro.
It's only good for already industrialised countries.
I just watched this a few days ago and I see today that Shell is going to pay *$11 million* for damages. I’m disgusted but not surprised. There’s not enough money in the world to make up for what was and is being done to the Ogoni people.
Thank again for another priceless video. *This* is the context and information I look to when I discuss domestic and world history with my kids.
Peanuts
The ogoni people lost their homeland for a measly 11 million. European brain disease is a wonder.
I almost teared up watching this. This story resonates all across Africa, Is this our fate as Africans?.....to be manipulated, robbed and mistreated by foreigners with the help of our leaders?
Its the same with as Balkan folks
I cry hard when I watch your videos. The country of my parents. They loved it with all their heart. Yet was robbed of their own birth right. Moving to Europe, to a land where they detested yet was the only place to provide and protect them. Life truly isn't fair!! Africa why? Nigerian when? Were now the supposed golden generation raised in the west with no true identity I tire!
We must fight and get rid of all the bloody greedy leaders and build a beautiful country.
We are a sad nation, ruled by these kleptocrats
I’m in Nigeria and I feel this
Go back to Nigeria then if you detest Europe so much
KB Taiwo has taught me more than the South African education system ever has
If his last words didn't bring tears to those who took his life. Huh! It is a sad story. More sad, that as an african, I never knew it until you covered the story new africa. Thank you for sharing this.
Babangida still lives though in a shadow of himself
We always learnt in school that Ken Saro-Wiwa had done good things but we learnt such vague history about him and the evil of Sani Abach and Babangida that I didn't even know he was from such a minority tribe! I'm so glad History is back in the Nigerian curriculum.
This video brings to mind one of the questions I have never been able to answer but history continues to ask it. As a leader, in the face of brutal oppression do you give in for a comprise that keeps your followers oppressed but possibly less so or chose to risk deaths in the hope of true liberation. In this case, till these day the Ogoni people still suffer, their lands and water are ruined. There is still little to no compensational infrastructure in that area. How then can those deaths be justified aside from Matyrs that we eulogize about in our imaginations and some foundations here and there. Sometimes I wonder if any armed resistance against a far superior power is ever worth it.
I think this is why you find many rebel leaders have little to no regret for the actions they took believing would free their people. There is just no proven formula for this. Do you temporarily give in, in the hope that it will ease the oppression just a little and give your people a fighting chance of survival; or do you hold out in the face of severe brutality in the hope that it will pay out the ultimate prize?
We always judge these people for their actions after we already know the outcome, forgetting that they made these decisions before and they had no way of conclusively knowing the outcome that we have come to know.
Do not hold out entirely without a plan. Bargain hard and take what you can, fight and conquer if you can but most importantly know when to withdraw and re-strategize.
If you lose your life without accomplishing what you set out to of what use is it? What can you possibly achieve with that?
Die by all means but let it be after conquering.
@@sivuyilemtsi9840 It really is tough being a ‘freedom fighter’ the goal is freedom and not death but you have to risk death in pursuit of freedom with full knowledge that your death does not equal freedom in fact it might reduce the chance. Then how would you live with yourself seeing the oppression continue, imagine seeing a fisherman who can no longer fish and farmer who can no longer farm due to no fault of his own or an act of God. Knowing that his misery is an act of man and you might have helped. That might kill you too
@@arinzefrancis7417 I understand your point fully but sometimes you can calculate wrongly and the checkmate might come sooner than you expected. In this case he was not caught raiding or terrorizing, he was allegedly setup in such a way that his only out was either full scale terrorism or fleeing the country
Sometimes you have to believe that what you are fighting for is so important that you just have to go and fight and not think anymore about it.
Look at the people's of Yugoslavia during WW2, the Soviet Partisans in WW2 and look at how China kept hanging on despite the Century of Shame and the Empire of Japan's invasion of the country.
Listen I'm from Jamaica 🇯🇲 and I'm really sorry for what happened in south east Nigeria decades ago,I'm sorry about what the Hausa Fula people are have done! I'm also sorry for what is going on in Kaduna,Zamfara, Maiduguri with other ethnic groups like kanuri etc but I really need NIGERIA 🇳🇬 that's all the people to pull together so we can have direct flights from Lagos, Abuja,Jos to my country that we don't have to travel through Europe or America to get to Africa 🌍!!! Pull up yuh socks Nigeria mi a beg
It’s a long road
You’re not African so why do Jamaicans want a direct flight to Africa? What do we as Africans actually benefit from that or from Jamaica?
Africa's rich resources are also the reason behind it's poverty.
Kwame Nkrumah calls it, "The African Paradox".
@@TheRamamedia Well it is one.
The resource curse.
That is ridiculous 🤷♂️
@@dscott4465 That is truth.
I've not even watched yet but I know am gonna love it. Guy you're doing a great job. Maybe you should look into a patreon. Kudos, big ups and more grease to your elbows.
They already have a patreon. I myself am a patron.
As an Ogoni Man in Diaspora, when I show resilience to unjust acts around me, I am often asked in German „warum bist du so anders?“, and of course my response is „weil ich in meinem kurzen leben viel gesehen habe“ and doing what is just is the right thing to do. These sad incidents only make us stronger ✊🏽
To the commentator, you never missed and thanks for beautifully narrating our history of struggle.
Thanks to New Africa too for this Masterpiece of Historical truth 🙏🏾
I think ogoni people need more than Germans needs you. The oil spillage has stopped
@@robertsshawn7029 You’re absolutely correct. The plan is to go back with a sustainable plan to help out and join the young builders but for now I would keep building myself till then. Thanks for your comment 🙌🏾
*has’nt
@cosmossaronwiyo4289
USA,France, and Britain have been stealing oil from the Niger Delta ,how come nobody is complaining
I got to know the Ken Wiwa story sometime 2014, and to this day I feel sad seeing how ruthlessly he was killed. My country Ghana had high hopes after oil was discovered in commercial quantities, after 10 years we don’t have much to show for it. With African countries still dependent on natural resources, I wonder what will become of us in 100 years
Ken Saro Wiwa has forever Ogoniland as an example for other minority ethnic groups in Nigeria to emulate for liberation.........."the struggle continues "
My 22 years living or schooling in Nigeria they never teach us about this.. thank God for technology.... thank you new Africa... a lot of untold stories... the struggle continue
That is because the Fulanis dominate you and dominate the things that are taught to you in school and have shifted your focus to "hate the igbos, they are your enemy ".
@@Vinus739 I swear down. We awake now. So we moouve
I thought this video was getting released this weekend y'all. It's gonna be a good one.
Watching this and just crying. This is so painful!
Married into a Nigerian family. Thank you so much for doing this work. It helps me understand my husbands country and educate our children.
Awesome that you’re making an effort to learn his culture!
Really solid content, very much enjoying the depth given to these topics and figures. Although, i wouldnt mind a reading list of worthwhile books on Africa
And Buhari is still here as the President! Recycling one rubbish with another!
As a student In Liverpool University in the UK I drank in a bar named after Ken saro wiwa and until now I knew little about him. Yet another great video from one of my favourite CZcams channels
NewAfrica videos are among the most important videos on CZcams. It is so important to learn the truth and fight imperialism and exploitation wherever they are so important. Thank you so much!
Another very good video! The history of Africa has always just been a muddy cloud of civil wars and dictators, so I like learning about the people who stood up to them like Saro-Wiwa.
Let it not be said that our stories were not told by us. Love what you do on this channel
Thank you for this story, greed and complete lack of unity has always been the enemy to Africa. It is a shame imagine what she would be with great leadership and lack of tribalism.
Long story short, the international community paid lip service support to the Ogoni people's struggle - while they bought Shell's oil and did nothing to pressure shell.
We will never change
Capitalism :(
Always the same , all talk no action just preaching unless it involves them getting oil of course than it’s a humanitarian crisis in which they must get involved , it’s sickening world sadly
It's very difficult to do anything, when you yourself sign your freedom away.
@@michaelslowmin nope. It's actually the answer not the problem
Same people he supported to sabotage Ojukwu's Biafra killed him.
That true?
Ojukwu biafra? What is all this persecution complex the people from the east, always bring to the fore. As if we are not all suffering in Nigeria. If you would know, there are just 2 ethnic groups in Nigeria. The rich and poor ethnicity!
@@oladipoolokunola8029 "The rich and poor ethnicity!" Dreams. People actually expecting Nigerians to unify on a class level have been wrong for generations now.
Ojukwu forcefully tried to annex rivers state what do you expect. We were never interested
@@theodorejaja4535
Rivers didn't exist yet.
This oil has done more harm in Nigeria than any war . fought in the world what a tragedy in Humongous proportion.
Powerful documentary 👏🇬🇭... They signed their agreement here in Ghana
Aburi
Long live the memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa!
Thank you for opening my eyes to aspects of history previously hidden from me.
Long live the memory of Edward Kobani, Samuel Orage, Theophilus Orage, Albert Badey! They were my family, they were good ppl, compassionate, intelligent ppl who wanted a better future for Ogoni ppl. Brutally murdered for simply trying to attain peace. While having a noble cause, Ken saro wiwa was no saint, NO AMOUNT of public sympathy will ever change that fact…Nigeria is a nation that has been wrecked by exploitation, greed, and violence from it’s very inception. So sad everything we’ve been through, sad what we will continue to go through, but we cannot give up. We must prodper
When Biafrans will be called I'm surely coming out to fight, peace or no peace
I have never seen a source of information about Africa (history and news) like this one. It explains it greatly, and with details. Keep it up the awesome work ;)
Your content is amazing. If i had friends I'd share this with them!
Im your friend
Always looking forward to KB saying "You see..."
Traveled to Enugu once. Found demand for Biafra strong even now. Wasn't aware of the Ogoni struggle. Beautiful film, as always ❤
I love your Channel, it’s so well made and your voice soothing. Big up my African brother (I am a Amazigh)
I love love love your CZcams channel. Thank you for all the work
Thank you for watching!
You know the sad part about all this ....ultimately the United Nations and the EU who sought to strip Nigeria from the commonwealth intentionally turned a blind eye to Shell who is at the root of all this. That is why Abacha's money will never be of any good to Nigeria, it's all blood money!
Shell continues to walk free today doing irreparable damage wherever oil is found in Africa.
On the contrary my brother there was no money during Abacha regime and no money to steal, check your facts well.
@@generalzico9221 what about the oil money ??? Or you didn’t watch the video?
NewAfrica is sincerely the best channel for African history. Keep on with the good work❤
Thanks, K. B. Taiwo. You are doing a great job educating Africans and the entire world on such important historical facts.
Lord knows that I can't bring myself to make a video like this...half way through and I am already boiling with a mix of emotions, anger being at the top of the list.
The greed of humanity is second to none!
The voice over is amazing. so smooth and refreshing.
Divide and Conquer..
Alive and Well..
Righteous People all da Best..
As always you're so good at what you do. KB Taiwo never disappoint! Keep up the good work.
Great documentary and a beautiful tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa. The struggle continues...
Yeah, I'm not lamenting the fact that most of our mineral wealth got depleted before the 20th century. We had oil refineries but the crude oil itself has been getting imported.
I can't state enough how much I value and respect your contributions. Thank you!
Thank you. Another great one. Always looking forward to it.
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Great video!! It's always worth the waiting!!
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Great video i'd like see you do a complete political analysis of South Africa's ANC government post apartheid.
Thanks for this video Taiwo. It was well made as usual.
Great stuff, glad I found this channel.
Another amazing vid
Glad you enjoyed it
@@NewAfrica keep it up. Your channel is simply brilliant. We learn so much about this rich continent.
Love this one, keep up the good work 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Another excellent video. Well written, superbly presented.
Great work Taiwo. Perfect narration.
This a remarkable and incredible video👏🏽👏🏽, it couldn't have come at a better time, considering that we Nigerians are suffering from the ills of this civil war, oil spillage that destroyed farmlands and water bodies, environmental pollution in the south-south done by big oil companies and these atrocities that continues to worsen daily. We are definitely sharing this video. Keep up the great work @NewAfrica 🙏🏾👍🏾 Ken Saro-Wiwo was indeed a hero with integrity.
Fascinating and harrowing, thank you for making this
Love the contemporary African history videos, you guys are doing amazing work please keep going.
As always good work! I love when our history is told with the responsibility on us!
Excellent, excellent work. I'm learning so much from this channel.
Wonderful work, absolutely
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Thanks for informing us about the history
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This channel is such a treasure. Thanks a lot for all the work and effort you are putting into this!
This channel is beautiful. Thank you so much for this content
Truly a gem of a channel. I love your work.
really really great stuff as always.
you and your team are a great credit to both yourselves and your country.
I love your channel. You do things from all across Africa, well researched, and you put both big and small stories from current new entrepreneurs to huge political presidents across Africa to regional events that may focus on a group in a country like this. Well done
Always a good day when you release new content. I know this is going to be a good one and a very interesting one.
Love your work. I haven't seen any documentary done like yours. Especially on Nigeria
USA, Nigeria, Europe all nations have problems.
Here in America serious problems.
Nigeria is doing More good things economically than bad things .
I can't wait! Love your videos
Another good one…I really enjoy learning some of the lessor known history of Africa/Nigeria
Thank you for this 👏
Africa deserves better leaders that want to actually better their nations and represent their interests, not just the interests of elites and companies. The struggle continues. Much love from the US, African history is barely talked about or taught so this channel is a great resource.
an excellent video. thank you for putting Africa's history on CZcams.
Thanks to channels like this, young Nigerians get to learn her history in real time
As always Taiwo . Quality work . God bless you guys
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Once again, Great video
Those last words (LORD take my soul but the struggle continues) have robbed me of any comments. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
From the martyrs of the Biafran Revolution to the loss of those who just wanted their ancestral homes to be left untainted by the bloodied oil money, I can only give you a #21Gunshot salute for your bravery and sacrifice.
And as for those who didn't mind the genocide and oil spills just because of the oil money, may you find oil in your own region and may that oil boom turn to oil doom.