I was contacted by Friday Nbani an environmental activist from Ogoniland in the Niger Delta after he saw someone wearing my Hell t-shirt at The Big One protest in London. He invited me to Port Harcourt in 2023 for the first Niger Delta Climate Change Conference, to document, assist, produce protest materials and meet people on the frontline of the battle against Shell.

While there I filmed Ogoni community leaders, activists, students and doctors, explaining the situation and the suffering of these communities, and captured footage of the ecological devastation Shell and other oil companies have brought to their homes.

Shell has been attacking the people of the Niger Delta from both ends. People here are having their lives ruined and dramatically shortened by the spills and leaks and toxic fumes of oil production in their communities but they’re also some of the most heavily affected by climate change. Already floods in this part of the world are far deadlier and more severe than they were ten years ago.

NIGER DELTA HELL BUS

Later that year I crowdfunded the purchase and renovation of a smaller Niger Delta Hell Bus, but without the mobile exhibition as it seems more useful for this vehicle to be able to transport activists in a country where, for the poorest and most affected by Shell’s plunder, any activism involving travel is prohibitively expensive.

In 2025 I returned to film a documentary about the anniversary of the execution of the Ogoni Nine by the Abacha regime at the behest of Shell. We distributed free Hell t-shirts, meals and water to activists and took over a couple of billboards.

I hope to finish the documentary before the November anniversary in 2026.