On February 22, 1895, a British Naval Force under the command of
Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford laid siege to Brass, the chief city
of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe
fighting, the city was razed to the ground. More than 2000 people,
mostly women and children perished in that attack - launched at the
behest of a British company in the name of Queen Victoria. writer,
political activist and leader of the Niger Delta's Movement for the
Survival of the Ogoni People. Again, the people of Nembe were
locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their
livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive
Nigerian governments and another British company, the giant
multinational Royal Dutch Shell. the Nigerian military,
demonstrating (in contrast to Shell's public profile) how
irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a
people destitute. Compelling and angry, it draws attention to a
grave injustice. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full
circle as crude oil has taken the place of palm oil, but the
dramatis personae remain the same: a powerful multinational company
bent on extracting the last drop of blood from the richly endowed
Niger Delta and a courageous people determined to resist.
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