Nnimmo Bassey

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Nnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian environmental activist, architect, and poet known for his leadership in climate justice and opposition to oil exploitation in the Niger Delta.

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instanceOf architect
environmental activist
human
poet
advocatesFor community rights in the Niger Delta
environmental justice
renewable energy
awardReceived Rafto Prize
Right Livelihood Award
Sofía Prize for Environment and Development
continentOfCitizenship Africa
countryOfCitizenship Nigeria
dateOfBirth 1958
educatedAt University of Nigeria, Nsukka
employer Health of Mother Earth Foundation
fieldOfWork architecture
climate justice
environmentalism
human rights
poetry
founded Health of Mother Earth Foundation
genre poetry
political writing
hasGender male
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
Ibibio
memberOf Environmental Rights Action
Friends of the Earth International
movement anti-oil exploitation movement
climate justice movement
environmental movement
notableFor climate justice activism
opposition to oil exploitation in the Niger Delta
notableWork I Will Not Dance to Your Beat
To Cook a Continent
We Thought It Was Oil But It Was Blood
occupation activist
architect
environmentalist
poet
writer
opposes fossil fuel extraction
gas flaring in the Niger Delta
placeOfBirth Akwa Ibom State
placeOfResidence Benin City
positionHeld chair of Friends of the Earth International
director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation
executive director of Environmental Rights Action
religion Christianity

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Alternative Nobel Prize hasLaureate Nnimmo Bassey
Right Livelihood Award hasLaureate Nnimmo Bassey