Topic: Ogoni

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37: A Shell Game
1:02:30 - 1:06:46

37: A Shell Game

Ken Saro-Wiwa and Shell's Collaboration with Dictatorships

Shell Oil is accused of collaborating with the Nigerian government to suppress the Ogoni people, leading to the 1995 hanging of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The hosts discuss how the company uses corporate philanthropy to "whitewash" its history of complicity in murder and environmental destruction.