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Remembering Oronto Douglas

‘He was there’ – Stirring Poetic Tribute To Oronto Douglas, By Famous Obebi Famous

by Famous Obebi Famous He is here… He was there… When the ‘kuntimoic blast of blunderbuss …echoed through Chikoko… …and sent shrapnels of torn flesh and deep craters of ecological...

#Tribute: A Man Of Uncommon Courage Oronto Douglas, By Denja Yaqub

by Denja Yaqub He took the battle against the severe injustices oil communities have had to contend with since the discovery of the money spinner in...

The Rebel, Oronto Douglas: Memorial For A Friend (READ)

by Daphne Wysham If they knew him at all, the world knew Oronto Douglas as the former attorney for the writer, playwright and Ogoni human...

My Journey With The Amazing Oronto Douglas, By Ipigansi Okumo

by Ipigansi Okumo At 5:00am on Thursday 9th April, 2015, a great journey filled with lofty hopes and ideas came to a painful end. It...

#Tribute: 26 Years With Oronto Douglas, By Doifie Buokoribo

by Doifie Buokoribo Reality is full of contradictions. By the time Oronto Douglas passed on to the great beyond, we were on different sides of...

‘Men like Oronto Douglas do not die’: A Tribute, By Andy Rowell

by Andy Rowell Nigeria lost one of its most iconic, out-spoken and passionate advocates for social and environmental justice last week with the cruelly early...

Oronto Natei Douglas: A Man Of Uncommon Courage, By Akinbode Oluwafemi

by Akinbode Oluwafemi My last lunch with Oronto was on February 22, 2015. The venue was his hotel room on the  9thfloor of Eko Hotels,...

Abdul Mahmud: Goodnight Oronto Douglas

by Abdul Mahmud But for a poem or two written during the early years of my writing career, I find elegy a difficult and tedious...

Oronto Douglas: One Of The Best Of My Generation, By Yinka Odumakin

A friend of about 28 years, Oronto Douglas breathed the last in the early hours of Thursday, April 9, 2015 after about seven years...

Oronto Douglas Solidified The Relationship Between President Jonathan And Niger Delta Governors – Uduaghan

Delta State‎ Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has described the Death of President Goodluck Jonathan's Special Adviser on Research, Documentation and Strategy, Oronto Natei Douglas as...

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