The Ken Saro-Wiwa Story | Greed, Betrayal and the Battle for Nigeria's Oil Money
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2021
- 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
I’ve never been this emotional over a TH-cam 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.
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
Like PLO Lumumba said corruption killed more people than wars in Africa. Corruption, The neverending story of Nigeria.
And all that was caused by a Comedian? Damn, underrated man.
No joke!
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.
Extremely unique, unbiased channel. Love the content.
Damn, i forgot how good the narrator was too.
Ojukwu thought he was fighting Nigeria but didn't know he was going to fight Britain.
Editing 💯
Narration 💯
Authenticity 💯
Objectivity 💯
Lovely page
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.
Oil is easily the most destabilising thing on Earth. Great video as usual bro.
It's only good for already industrialised countries.
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.
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
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.
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?
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
Nigeria is not a country, it's a business, a shrewd business.
It's more like a warlord property
@@tyvamakes5226 that too
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 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
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
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.
I thought this video was getting released this weekend y'all. It's gonna be a good one.
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
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
Watching this and just crying. This is so painful!
Thank you. Another great one. Always looking forward to it.
Thanks for this video Taiwo. It was well made as usual.
As always good work! I love when our history is told with the responsibility on us!
Great work Taiwo. Perfect narration.
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
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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.
Great video!! It's always worth the waiting!!
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.
Thanks for informing us about the history
Wonderful work, absolutely
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
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Never disappoints, the level of detail is always top notch, I mean I've just found out an insight of what is really going in Nigeria's oil and it's never ending violence, yes I knew it was because of oil but not at such density
NewAfrica is sincerely the best channel for African history. Keep on with the good work❤
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 really great stuff as always.
you and your team are a great credit to both yourselves and your country.
I've been watching your videos for about three months now and I must say, the amount of work, research, and editing that has gone into these videos are amazing. Being from the United States, we never ever hear about this history, especially from someone who does the amount of work and personal knowledge on these subjects! Thank you for making these amazing videos!
Fascinating and harrowing, thank you for making this
Another excellent video. Well written, superbly presented.
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
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!
Love the contemporary African history videos, you guys are doing amazing work please keep going.
Excellent, excellent work. I'm learning so much from this channel.
Another good one…I really enjoy learning some of the lessor known history of Africa/Nigeria
Great documentary and a beautiful tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa. The struggle continues...
Thanks once again for the enlightenment. You’re take your time and you get it right. God bless you.
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Always looking forward to KB saying "You see..."
Once again, Great video
Powerful documentary 👏🇬🇭... They signed their agreement here in Ghana
Aburi
I love your Channel, it’s so well made and your voice soothing. Big up my African brother (I am a Amazigh)
Thanks!
Another Great story , the sound track is amazing and mesmerizing , I wish I know how composed it
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Thank you for your work and I hope you never stop
Thank you so much 🙌🏿
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Another amazing vid
Glad you enjoyed it
@@NewAfrica keep it up. Your channel is simply brilliant. We learn so much about this rich continent.
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Ken Saro Wiwa has forever Ogoniland as an example for other minority ethnic groups in Nigeria to emulate for liberation.........."the struggle continues "
I love history and as an african the history of Africa has a special place in my heart, this channel is incredible, objectiv, unbiased and just straight facts.
In any african leder you get the good side and the bad side with this channel.
You don't make many videos but when you do, it's on point.
One of the few channels where the 🔔 is on.
I salute you sir!
Great content! I'm learning more about my continent from this channel.
Superb video, as always! I really enjoyed the way you tied the connection between Biafra and MOSOP. Also, I remember hearing about Ken Saro-Wiwa on the BBC World Service at the time, and he was always described as a poet. I had no idea he was a television comedian too! I can see now how he would be such a potent threat to a dictatorial regime, as he was clearly more famous and beloved than I realized. Thank you again!
Brilliant, you guys are doing a great service bringing modern African history to a mass audience. Great writing, clear narration and strong visuals. Please keep it up!
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 TH-cam channels
Thanks to channels like this, young Nigerians get to learn her history in real time
Excellent, thank you.
As always you're so good at what you do. KB Taiwo never disappoint! Keep up the good work.
another great vid once again, keep up the good work
Another Fantastic video brother
What a beautiful protest by a beautiful people. Great video, from Éire/Ireland. 🇮🇪