Nnimmo Bassey

Nnimmo Bassey ( born June 11, 1958) is a Nigerian poet and environmentalist. Since 2008 he is chairman of the Friends of the Earth and Environmental Rights Action. Time magazine chose him in 2009 as one of the Heroes of the Environment ( "Heroes of the Environment" ).

Life

Bassey is an architect and worked for ten years in the public sector of Nigeria. In the 1980s, he was a board member of the Nigerian civil rights organization. In 1993 he was co-founder of Environmental Rights Action, a Nigerian NGO, which is particularly critical of the environmental damage caused by oil production in Nigeria. In 2008 he was elected chairman of the international organization Friends of the Earth. 2009, he was, though he was accredited for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, there denied access. 2010 Bassey was awarded the Right Livelihood Award ( Alternative Nobel Prize ), because he had tried in his works, to determine the follow-up costs of oil production for mankind and to show. In 2012, he was honored for his commitment to the Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize.

Publications

  • To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa Publisher: Fahamu (Jul 1 2010 ) ISBN 1-906387-53-2 ISBN 978-1-906387-53-2
  • Trade and human rights in the Niger Delta
  • SHELL 'S FPSO poses serious dangers
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