SOCI 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni People, Royal Dutch Shell
12 Mar 2018
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Pollution is racialized: rich white nations dump waste in poorer black and brown nations. Thetford mines ships most of its asbestos to developing nations, where the lethal health risks of the substance are not as widely understood or where safer alternatives are prohibitively expensive. The city of halifax, before demolishing the africville neighbourhood in the mid 60s, located several major polluters and a dump site right beside the black community. Oil companies observe different environmental guidelines in africa than they do in europe and north america. Oil companies frequently do business with dictatorships that can readily oppress africans who resist western pollution. His story exemplifies the greatest ills of european colonialism in nigeria specifically and. Nigeria was the largest country in africa, with a population of close to 160 million. Ken saro-wiwa was a man of his people, the ogoni, for whom he was killed.
