Guest: Nnimmo Bassey, "How have the Rights of Nigerian Poor been Taken Away"

Nnimmo Bassey is director of an ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and Coordinator of Oilwatch International. Bassey has authored books on the environment, architecture and poetry. He was chair of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012) and Executive Director of Nigeria’s Environmental Rights Action (1993-2013). He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award also known as the “Alternative Noble Prize.” In 2012 he received the Rafto Human Rights Award. In 2014 he received Nigeria’s national honour as Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) in recognition of his environmental activism. His book, To Cook a Continent - Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa (Pambazuka Press, 2012) has been translated in Portuguese and Finnish (2014).  You can find his publications at www.homef.org.  his blog,  nnimmo.blogspot.com/ His latest blog, "Explosive Oil Firelds of the Niger Delta"   Hideko Nagashima...Host of the Show Misa Kojima...Co-host of the Show Stay tuned!