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The Green Room (Episode 3): Environmental Activism and Its Role towards Achieving Sustainable Development: LESSONS FROM KEN SARO WIWA

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Nigeria is not on track towards achieving sustainable development. The combined effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and Nigeria’s apathy towards development has unfortunately verified the opening statement. As the nation struggles with efficiency in advanced climatology, sustainable technologies in transportation, infrastructures, renewable energy, agriculture and finance; how can environmental activism mobilize and focus the nation on the path towards achieving sustainable development?

Tune in to the Green Room with questions as we host Omoyele Sowore, a former presidential candidate, an environmental activist and founder of Sahara Reporters to tie the knot between environmental activism and sustainable development, as he gleans insights from the life of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Highlights

  • What are obstacles to   Ken Saro-Wiwa legacy?

  • How has NGO, incentivize environmental activism in Nigeria?

  • How can the international community support and protect Nigerian environmental activists?

  • What national measures can civil society take to cushion against the oppression by these powers?

  • How can we get majority of the masses to become interested in environmental activism?

  • Why has Nigerian environmental activists received the opposite in form of persecution, harassment, confiscation of properties?

  • And Lots more…