#PeoplesHistory | 🇳🇬 Since 1993, in Nigeria, 4 January is observed as the Ogoni Day to remember the Ogoni people’s peaceful struggle against discrimination, suppression and the destruction of their environment and livelihoods by oil companies and the Nigerian government. 
On 4 January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni people peacefully protested against Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta and the environmental destruction of Ogoniland.
In 1990, Ken Saro-Wiwa founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a mass‐based social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta.
Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni leaders were executed by the Nigerian Military dictatorship on 10 November 1995. His “crime” was to demand the share of the Oil exploitation revenue corresponding to the Ogoni people who lived where the oil fields were.
Images: A protest demonstration by the Ogoni people. Credits: UNPO, Lokashakthi. And Kenule Beeson Saro Wiwa. Credits: Wikipedia.
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