Scribd
Upload
62 views1 page

Omoyele Sowere Investigative Journalist and Human Rights Activist

Omoyele Sowore is an investigative journalist and human rights activist from Nigeria who has spent the last 15 years working to promote democracy and stop violence from multinational oil companies in Nigeria. He publishes the popular online magazine Saharareporters which focuses on corruption fueled by oil money. His activism began as a student protesting conditions of an IMF loan and he was later elected student union president. Sowore believes oil companies like Shell and Chevron have only benefited a few people while polluting the Niger Delta region and enabling killings on their behalf. He has spoken at universities in the U.S. about these issues.

Uploaded by

api-26272444
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
62 views1 page

Omoyele Sowere Investigative Journalist and Human Rights Activist

Omoyele Sowore is an investigative journalist and human rights activist from Nigeria who has spent the last 15 years working to promote democracy and stop violence from multinational oil companies in Nigeria. He publishes the popular online magazine Saharareporters which focuses on corruption fueled by oil money. His activism began as a student protesting conditions of an IMF loan and he was later elected student union president. Sowore believes oil companies like Shell and Chevron have only benefited a few people while polluting the Niger Delta region and enabling killings on their behalf. He has spoken at universities in the U.S. about these issues.

Uploaded by

api-26272444
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

Omoyele Sowere

Investigative journalist and human rights activist

Omoyele Sowore has spent the last 15 years working to promote human rights and
democracy in Nigeria, and to stop the militarization and violence that multinational oil
companies have brought to his country. He is the publisher of the popular online
magazine, Saharareporters, which focuses on corruption fueled by petro-dollars in
Nigeria.

His activism began when he was a high school student in 1989. He protested the
conditions of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan of $120 million to be used for a
Nigerian oil pipeline -- the IMF loan conditions were to reduce the number of
universities in the country from 28 to just 5. In 1992, Sowore led student protest at the
University of Lagos, where police opened fire, killing seven. Sowore was arrested,
interrogated and beaten, and later found out that the police had pressured his family. But
he refused to back down in the struggle for decent education in his country, and was
elected executive president of the university student union.

“Shell and Chevron are among the biggest corporations in the world and they have
benefited only a few people, the clique that runs the country,” said Sowore who has been
imprisoned eight times and tortured for his activism. “The Niger Delta area is polluted,
occupied and heavily militarized. People get killed on behalf of the major oil companies.
That cannot be right."

Sowore has spoken out about human rights abuses and multinational oil companies
degradation of Nigeria at universities and conferences throughout the United States; he
also participated in the award-winning radio documentary, "Drilling and Killing: Chevron
and the Nigerian Oil Dictatorship" produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill of
Democracy Now! In 1998

Contact information: [email protected]


Website: www.saharareporters.com
Tel: 347.489.3765

You might also like