NIGER DELTA HELL BUS
HELL IN THE NIGER DELTA
After my first visit to the Niger Delta in 2023, Ogoni climate activists asked me to create a Niger Delta Hell Bus to support their activities and provide a backdrop for their protests against the fossil fuel industry.
I made the bus later that year and donated it to Ogoni environmental activists. It has been running ever since, although it is showing signs of wear-and tear.
The next major protest is on the 10th November 2025, a peaceful march to the Shell HQ in Port Harcourt to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the execution of the Ogoni Nine. This march and vigil happens every year, mobilising tens of thousands of Ogoni people.
I'll be returning to document the anniversary and film a new documentary about Shell's crimes in the region and their attempts to avoid responsibility for almost 70 years of rampant destruction, oppression, and murder.
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DOCUMENTARY OF MY FIRST VISIT
I was invited by LEDEF to Nigeria in July 2023 for the Niger Delta's first climate change conference, and as part of the conference I was taken to visit two Shell oil spill sites in Ogoniland. I shot the above video of what I saw and heard while there. It was one of the saddest and most enraging things I have ever seen.
CAMERA/LAPTOP DONATIONS
While in Nigeria I was also asked by local activists if I had a spare camera they could use to document oil spills in their communities, I will be bringing my old DSLR as a donation this time, although it does not record video.
I thought it might be worth also asking if anyone has any old digital (and functioning!) camera / video equipment that they would be happy to donate and I can bring it with me on this trip. The same goes for decent laptops. I will have limited space but will try bring as much as I can. Please email me here: darren@spellingmistakescostlives.com
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