Ogoni Women's Activism by Dube, Domale;

Long description:

In 1995, Nigeria’s dictatorial government executed nine Ogoni leaders fighting for civil rights and against Shell Oil’s depredations of Ogoni land. Domale Dube draws on interviews and participant observation to tell the long-ignored story of how women carved out a role in the Ogoni pursuit of justice.

Dube’s account examines and documents the issues that drew women into the movement, from concerns for themselves and their communities to grander visions for the Ogoni. As she shows, these issues not only influenced organizing in Nigeria but also the diaspora in general and the United States in particular. Ogoni women relied upon nonviolent protest to realize their aims. Dube looks at their campaigns and how their actions reflected their concerns, values, interests, and priorities. The result is a rare account of Black women and transnational organizing for women’s, climate, and environmental justice that merges a history of their involvement with an in-depth analysis of the racial, gender, and ethnic dimensions of the Ogoni Struggle.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Ogoni Women in the Precolonial and Colonial Eras
2. The Formation of FOWA
3. Ogoni Feminist Epistemology and Education
4. Ogoni Women’s Nonviolent Resistance
5. Trauma, Healing, and Ogoni Women Immigrants’ Transnational Organizing

Conclusion

References

Index