Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People

MOSOP

Media

Browse our archive of press releases, speeches, special reports, memoranda, and other documents.

Events

MOSOP  organises different events including Ogoni Day and participate in relevant international activities.

Ogoni Star

Ogoni Star is the official newspaper of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, published every fortnight. You may access it online by clicking on the button below:

“We, the people of Ogoni (Babbe, Gokana, Ken Khana, Nyo Khana and Tai) numbering about 500,000 . . .”

Ogoni Bill of Rights

Events

PROGRAMME AREAS

MOSOP is currently carrying out activities in the following programme areas:

• Democracy and Good Governance

• Human Rights

• Peace Building and Conflict Resolution

• Gender and HIV / Aids

• Institutional Development and Capacity Building

• Special programme on the Report of the Niger Delta Technical Committee

• Environment

SPECIAL ANNUAL EVENTS

MOSOP annual events are as follows:

• January 4 – Ogoni Day Celebration

• November 10 – Ogoni  Martyrs Day

Ken Saro-Wiwa at the first Ogoni Day held on 4 January 1993, which drew an unprecedented crowd of more than 300,000 Ogoni people. It is a special day on which our people celebrate their victory over the evil forces of marginalisation, unconscionable military brutality against defenceless and law-abiding citizens, untold oppression, economic deprivation, environmental despoliation, and criminal neglect by the Nigerian state and their corporate agents including Shell.

The following poem by Ken Saro-Wiwa was masterfully crafted by the internationally acclaimed writer and playwright to invoke the jubilant mood for celebration of Ogoni Day:

Dance your anger and your joys

Dance the military guns to silence

Dance their dumb laws to the dump

Dance oppression and injustice to death

Dance the end of Shell’s ecological war of 30 years

Dance my people for we have seen tomorrow

And there is an Ogoni Star in the sky