Works of: Sophia Evans

Works of: Sophia Evans
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The 'Singermen' or protectors of Tebee, a spirit with healing powers who emerges from the forest in the form of a masked man
2002
2015.0133.1408
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The masked man represents a powerful secret spirit called Teebee who emerges from the forest once a year, he is surrounded by his protectors called the singermen
2002
2015.0133.1407
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Endurance, 20, and Dorothy, 18, dress up for Ken Saro Wiwa 7 years after he was hung along with 8 other Ogoni leaders as a mark of respect for their hero
2002
2015.0133.1406
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Mrs Karalole Korgbara from a small village called Biara in Ogoniland was shot by the Nigerian military in April 1993 hired by Shell to protect its oil workers who were forcibly laying an oil pipe on the villagers' land used for growing vital crops
2002
2015.0133.1405
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Agip, an Italian oil company, polluting the atmosphere with gas flares
2002
2015.0133.1404
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Chevron's 'Christmas puppet show in the swamps'
2002
2015.0133.1403
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Sophia Evans
Oil companies in the Niger Delta employ the Nigerian military to guard their facilities and escort workers on boats through the rivers swamps
2002
2015.0133.1402
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An Ogoni fisherman along Bane riverside
2002
2015.0133.1401
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Loveday Fomsi, an Ogoni man, looks into a polluted stream formerly a drinking source for locals
2002
2015.0133.1400
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Ken Saro Wiwa's parents, Chief Jim Beeson Wiwa and Mama Jesse Nwidu Wiwa, in Chief Jim's parlour
2002
2015.0133.1399
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Children from the village of Akalu-Olu
2002
2015.0133.1398
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Ogoni people from Ken Saro Wiwa's home village gather at his shrine on the eve of the anniversary of his hanging along with 8 other Ogoni leaders on November 10, 1995
2002
2015.0133.1397
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A statue with its arms outstretched is that of the Yoruba people's beloved Moshood Abiola who would and should have been President in 1993 but the elections were annulled and Abiola was thrown into jail
2002
2015.0133.1396
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M.I.C. ushers are present at the funeral of a 37 year old man
2002
2015.0133.1395
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SEHMU who operate out of a Peugeot 504, deliver a body at the morgue in their standard metal coffin which they will later wash out ready for the next day's use
2002
2015.0133.1394
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A badly burnt body lies unclaimed on the street in front of Elton Hotel in the Ikate District as school children walk by
2002
2015.0133.1393
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The vigilantes are the link to the bodies that end up on the streets
2002
2015.0133.1392
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A body lies on the side of Badagry Road
2002
2015.0133.1391
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Oluwakemi, 11, carries her dead father's cornet while Mr. Tunji, Okusanya, owner of the biggest funeral business in Lagos called MIC, helps carry the casket through the cemetery
2002
2015.0133.1390
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A fetish priest makes his way through the traffic on a main street in Lagos asking for money
2002
2015.0133.1389
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Sophia Evans
Dirty Oil Business
2003
2015.0133.1388
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Dirty Oil Business
2003
2015.0133.1387
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Dirty Oil Business
2003
2015.0133.1386
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Dirty Oil Business
2003
2015.0133.1385
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