The singer Nneka (who is a great talent but always nervous in interviews) rambles on a bit about her name and her father before talking about oil politics, the Niger Delta, the Ogoni and Ken Saro Wiwa. Timely of course given the constitutional crisis in the country.

(Incidentally, this is from Youtube’s Causecast Channel, about which I don’t know enough yet, but looks like a place where entertainers and celebrities announce themselves on “causes.”)

Nneka’s music explicitly references Nigeria’s oil corruption. On the second verse of “Streets Lack Love,” for example, she shames the oil industry:

For nearly 60 years in Nigeria
People have been suffering from gas flaring, and pollution
Because of big oil extraction companies such as Shell, Chevron, NNPC
The Niger Delta, the Warri and the Ogoni people have pleading for a change
They have been fighting fot justice
But the companies, Europe and Nigerian government do not seem to care
Do not seem to be bothered, they can’t be bothered.