South Africa: The Mind of Every Ogoni Person Is Imprinted With What Shell Has Done to Our Land

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Barry Wugale is an Ogoni activist and author of Africa in Captivity: It's Time for the Church to Stand Up.

I was born in Bane, a coastal village of the Ogoni people. My family bears testimony to what Shell does to the environment. I saw my grand-uncle's fishing business come to an abrupt stop and my father relocate to the periphery of the city where he spent the rest of his life as a fisher around the city.

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