The ogoni uprising: Oil, human rights, and a democratic alternative in Nigeria

Africa Today

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-198

  Cayford, Steven ^a  

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References (52)

1. Steve Kretzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields': Shell Oil's Role in Repression," Multinational Monitor 26, no. 1-2 (January/February 1995).
2. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," Human Rights Watch/Africa Report 7, no. 5 (July 1995).
3. Krelzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields.'"
4. Glenn Ellis (director), The Drilling Fields (text from film by Catma Films).
5. Ellis, The Drilling Fields.
6. Kretzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields.'"
7. Paul Lewis, "Nigeria's Deadly Oil War: Shell Defends Its Record," The New York Times, 13 February 1996, p. A1, col. 1.
8. Ellis, The Drilling Fields.
9. Claude Ake, "Shelling Nigeria Ablaze," Tell, 29 January 1996, p. 34.
10. Eghosa E. Osaghae, "The Ogoni Uprising: Oil Politics, Minority Agitation and the Future of the Nigerian State," African Affairs, vol. 94, no. 376, July 1995, p. 333.
11. Quoted in Osaghae, "The Ogoni Uprising," p. 330.
12. Sam C. Nolutshungu, "Fragments of a Democracy: Reflections on Class and Politics in Nigeria," Third World Quarterly 12, no. 1 (January 1990), p, 90.
13. Ibid., p. 89.
14. Charles Akin Ogunrinde, "'Open Debate' Opens Up Disruptive Divisions," Gemini News Service (September 1995).
15. Nolutshungu, "Fragments of a Democracy," pp. 95-97.
16. Ibid., p. 328.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., p. 331.
19. Osaghae, "The Ogoni Uprising," p. 334.
20. Ibid.
21. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 10.
22. Osaghae, "The Ogoni Uprising," p. 335.
23. Ibid., p. 336.
24. Ibid., p. 336.
25. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria:The Ogoni Crisis," p. 9.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 11.
28. Lewis, "Nigeria's Deadly Oil War," p. A4, col. 2.
29. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 12.
30. Ibid., p. 13.
31. Osaghae, "The Ogoni Uprising," p. 338.
32. Kretzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields.'"
33. Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), "Developments in Ogoni, Nigeria" (The Hague, Netherlands: UNPO Press Release, June 1994).
34. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 40.
35. . UNPO, "Ogoni Situation Deteriorates" (The Hague, Netherlands: UNPO Press Release, 17 April 1994).
36. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 14.
37. Ibid., p. 16.
38. Kretzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields.'"
39. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 26.
40. Lewis, "Nigeria's Deadly Oil War," p. A4, col. 4.
41. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," pp. 26-28.
42. Ibid., p. 29.
43. Amnesty International, "Nigeria: Resumption of Public Executions," Amnesty International Press Release (London: Amnesty Interantional, AI Index: AFR 44/12/94, October 12, 1994).
44. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Ogoni Crisis," p. 33.
45. Kretzmann, "'Nigeria's Drilling Fields.'"
46. Katherine Isaac, "Nigeria: A Strike for Democracy," Multinational Monitor (June 1995), p. 21.
47. Amnesty International, Amnesty International Country Report: Nigeria (London: Amnesty International, AI Index: AFR 44/13/94, 1994).
48. Ibid.
49. Human Rights Watch/Africa, "Nigeria: The Dawn of a New Dark Age," Human Rights Watch/Africa Report 6, no. 8 (October 1994), p. 11.
50. Derek Ingram, "Nigeria Goes into the Commonwealth Dock," Gemini News Service (November 1995).
51. Makua Wa Matua, "Domestic Human Rights Organizations in Africa: Problems and Perspectives," A Journal of Opinion 22, no. 2 (1994), p. 30.
52. "Nigeria: Ordeal by Innocence," Index on Censorship 6/95 (November 1995).