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Nnimmo Bassey

ORA Africa Partner

Nigeria

Nnimmo Bassey is the Director of the ecological think tank Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and serves on the steering committee of Oilwatch International. A renowned environmental activist and architect, he chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 to 2012 and was named a Hero of the Environment by Time magazine in 2009.

He is a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”), and received the Rafto Human Rights Award in 2012. In recognition of his decades of environmental advocacy, he was awarded Nigeria’s national honour of Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) in 2014, and an honorary doctorate from the University of York (UK) in 2019.

A Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, Bassey is also an accomplished author and poet. His books include We Thought it Was Oil, But It Was Blood (Kraft Books, 2002), I Will Not Dance to Your Beat (Kraft Books, 2011), To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa (Pambazuka Press, 2012), and Oil Politics: Echoes of Ecological War (Daraja Press, 2016). Among younger generations of African climate activists, he is affectionately known as The Living Ancestor.

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