tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:59:36 +0000AACHRONYMGlobal African Arts with a focus on art-equity and cultural patrimony.http://aachronym.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)Blogger361125http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights Reservedtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-3567180244921042583Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:48:00 +00002009-12-01T03:59:36.263-08:00africans in britainblack history monthAfrican cultural patrimonyvoxafricaBlack History Month: Whose History, Whose Culture?An interesting discussion on Black History Month in the United Kingdom, focused on whether Africans in Africa are getting enough knowledge of their own cultural heritage and how repatriation of African artworks held in the West might rekindle an interest in precolonial African heritage.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/YsZ7fearoY8/black-history-month-whose-history-whose.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/YsZ7fearoY8" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/12/black-history-month-whose-history-whose.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-5313606133293897961Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:57:00 +00002009-11-25T06:58:45.450-08:00More on Herskovits AwardClick here for a link to a nice article published on the Nigerian Village Square by Moses Ochonu on my 2009 Herskovits Award.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/gf8ak1tq9vo/more-on-herskovits-award.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/gf8ak1tq9vo" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-on-herskovits-award.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-1908653800600115914Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:00 +00002009-11-22T03:02:06.322-08:00sylvester ogbechieuniversity of rochester pressben enwonwuboydell and brewerhersvokits awardEnwonwu book wins Herskovits Award 2009My book, Ben Enwonwu: The Making of an African Modernist (University of Rochester Press, 2008) has won the 2009 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association. The Herskovits Award is presented annually for the best scholarly work on Africa published in English in the previous year and distributed in the US.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/TJJd76Yx1Nw/enwonwu-book-wins-herskovits-award-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/TJJd76Yx1Nw" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/11/enwonwu-book-wins-herskovits-award-2009.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-789019176989083780Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:52:00 +00002009-10-05T11:00:52.168-07:00crown fraudAfrican cultural patrimonywho owns africa's art?CROWN FRAUD: Copyright and Looted Nigerian Cultural PatrimonyAbove, a very interesting clip from YouTube featuring ongoing efforts to challenge and countermand Britain's claims of copyright ownership of looted Nigerian cultural patrimony. Basically, it concerns the British loot from the invasion of Benin in 1897. Like many other major museums in Europe and the USA who hold large collections of Benin Cultural Patrimony, the issue of who actually owns the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/TsIHrrTTifs/crown-fraud-copyright-and-looted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/TsIHrrTTifs" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/10/crown-fraud-copyright-and-looted.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-1370728445544178760Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:21:00 +00002009-10-12T05:02:21.326-07:00nigeria national commission for museums and monumentsife artdynasty and divinityDynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient NigeriaVideo introduction to an ongoing exhibition of African royal art from the ancient Yoruba City of Ife. (Erratta: My previous entry on this video failed to correctly identify the person being interviewed: Enid Schildkrout, Chief Curator of the Museum for African Art, New York. Apologies).http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/ekfwmnT9SqA/dynasty-and-divinity-ife-art-in-ancient.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/ekfwmnT9SqA" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/10/dynasty-and-divinity-ife-art-in-ancient.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-6656119845953777337Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:38:00 +00002009-09-30T12:44:19.381-07:00peace fiberesimacnn on nollywoodNaijawomen make moviesNollywood Lady: Peace Anyiam FiberesimaFrom a press release by Women Make Movies:NOLLYWOOD LADY, a new educational resource now available through Women Make Movies, plus a special offer for documentaries on African Cinema from the new special collection Behind the Lens: Women in Cinema.Africa's film industry is one of the world's largest, third to only Bollywood and Hollywood. WMM's new release NOLLYWOOD LADY by Dorothee Wenner offershttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/ivUwMzP2RuM/nollywood-lady-peace-anyiam-fiberesima.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/ivUwMzP2RuM" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/09/nollywood-lady-peace-anyiam-fiberesima.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-4396616570901075164Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:01:00 +00002009-09-29T15:12:22.161-07:00NF 2009 nollywood foundationgenevieve nnajigenevieve on oprahoprah winfrey showNollywood Actress Genevieve Nnaji featured on OPRAHNollywood Actress Genevieve Nnaji was featured on the Oprah Winfrey show yesterday in a segment about famous people from film and media industries outside the USA. In a way, this marks the emergence of Nollywood into global media and provides a fitting cap to the tireless work done by the Nollywood Foundation over the previous five years of hosting conventions about the Nigerian Film Industry in http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/Dw_iOpBTOus/nollywood-actress-genevieve-nnaji.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/Dw_iOpBTOus" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/09/nollywood-actress-genevieve-nnaji.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-299067337915157926Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:18:00 +00002009-09-07T10:25:05.038-07:00Thrash-Ingosaheinye kainebicontemporary African art;CCA-LagosOsahenye Kainebi at CCA-LagosTrash-ing. New Works by Kainebi OsahenyeOpening: Saturday, 12th September 2009, 3pmExhibition continues till 10th October 2009Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos is pleased to present an exhibition of new mixed media and painterly installations by acclaimed Lagos based artist Kainebi Osahenye. With over twenty years of artistic practice, this current incarnation Trash-ing builds on the continuous http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/NxxWsNvciAg/osahenye-kainebi-at-cca-lagos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/NxxWsNvciAg" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/09/osahenye-kainebi-at-cca-lagos.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-1449228285702368563Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:21:00 +00002009-08-26T12:29:12.650-07:00blacks in global spacemicrosoft racismMicrosoft Photoshops Black Man Out Of European AdFrom the Huffington Post, this interesting evidence of the unstable location of black people in global space:Doing business abroad sometimes requires companies to tweak their marketing strategies. Companies often swap idiomatic phrases or images in advertisements to better suit cultural sensitivities and achieve better sales. But do those edits ever go too far?A black man was replaced with a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/aiYRohTy_sw/microsoft-photoshops-black-man-out-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/aiYRohTy_sw" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/microsoft-photoshops-black-man-out-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-4281745199133285Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:38:00 +00002009-08-24T18:41:12.485-07:00diversity in american museumsAmerica is Changing--but are its art museums?Interesting article from The Art Newspaper on the demographics of museum management in the USA:Nobody seems to have any meaningful statistics. But you do not have to look at major US art museums for long to realize that most of the senior management is white, unlike staff at comparable levels in corporations, universities and government offices. When is this going to change? Those leading effortshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/IvYGQwB6ohM/america-is-changing-but-are-its-art.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/IvYGQwB6ohM" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/america-is-changing-but-are-its-art.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-991541119164258990Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +00002009-08-22T08:44:37.677-07:00africa channeldffla 09nollywood foundationjackson 5Downtown Film Festival Los AngelesThe Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles (DFFLA: August 12-22, 2009) comes to a close today after a ten-day run. The Nollywood Foundation was represented at this event which opened with the acclaimed Spike Lee movie--Passing Strange and closes today with the West Coast premiere of Jackson 5 in Africa, a rare, never-before-seen documentary of Michael Jackson performing with his brothers in Senegal, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/eW8zvLnB1p8/downtown-film-festival-los-angeles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/eW8zvLnB1p8" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/downtown-film-festival-los-angeles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-5775440892812214125Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:35:00 +00002009-08-20T08:22:58.243-07:00gun-totting protestersbarack obamaright-wing lunacyamerican democracyHear Now, My CountryI have been mostly offline for over two months taking a break from blogging and trying to process momentous recent events in my life. In May 2008, after 16 years in the USA, I finally received American citizenship in a formal ceremony in Los Angeles. In June, I returned to Nigeria for summer research and made my first trip outside the USA on an American passport. The experience was surreally http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/QBs1pR_sp8U/hear-now-my-country.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/QBs1pR_sp8U" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/hear-now-my-country.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-3736874953141869325Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:47:00 +00002009-08-15T07:44:12.321-07:00repatriationart lootinguniversal museumsAfrican cultural patrimonyreparationsCFP: WHO OWNS AFRICA'S CULTURAL PATRIMONY?Call For PapersCritical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual CultureFall 2010WHO OWNS AFRICA’S CULTURAL PATRIMONY?Critical Interventions invites submissions for a special issue on the question of Africa’s cultural patrimony in Western museums, especially in the context of recent international debates about repatriation of historical artworks relocated from one culture to http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/n5np_XpErts/cfp-who-owns-africas-cultural-patrimony.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/n5np_XpErts" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/cfp-who-owns-africas-cultural-patrimony.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-468508780460817322Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:35:00 +00002009-08-10T21:28:26.588-07:00critical interventions 3/4CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS, NUMBERS 3/4Announcing the publication of CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture NUMBERS 3/4: INTERROGATING AFRICAN MODERNITYCritical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture announces the publication of issue Numbers 3/4 (Spring 2009): Interrogating African Modernity. The special double issue evaluates African modernist practices in art and visual http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/b0v_gHUbW0o/critical-interventions-numbers-34.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/b0v_gHUbW0o" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/critical-interventions-numbers-34.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-2157823808284319516Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:43:00 +00002009-08-09T03:05:11.236-07:00martin reinheimerSummer PassingLondon Heathrow, en route to Los Angeles. I am besieged by death this summer. Needing time to make sense of great losses.And this, brief though it is, to the memory of my mentor, Martin Reinheimer, who passed away while I was away in Nigeria this summer. Martin, a WWII veteran, was born in Germany. I met him in 1993 when I started my graduate studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/pJFM8w9JfKo/summer-passing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/pJFM8w9JfKo" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/08/summer-passing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-7363570526290583508Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +00002009-07-19T01:01:31.586-07:00neverlandcelebrity culturemichael jacksonTHE NEVERLAND ASCENSIONFourteen days. I thought that was long enough to pay my respects to the fateful departed, Michael Joseph Jackson. I chose to remember him as he was at the height of his fame, through the famous photograph on the cover of the Thriller album, before he embarked, in the last two decades of his life, on a remarkable process of performance art comprising of extreme body modification and radical http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/DhdB2tVUwI0/neverland-ascension.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/DhdB2tVUwI0" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/07/neverland-ascension.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-5148080091407767393Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:39:00 +00002009-07-04T01:43:48.871-07:00neverlandmichael jacksonking of popIn Memoriam: MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON (1958-2009)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/xhhdEHOP8V4/in-memoriam-michael-joseph-jackson-1958.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/xhhdEHOP8V4" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-memoriam-michael-joseph-jackson-1958.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-319162362688170408Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +00002009-06-26T04:55:57.233-07:00mackay mairisylvester ogbechiecnn on nollywoodnollywood foundationCNN Story on Nollywood: Problems of Accreditation...My post on the CNN story about Nollywood illustrates a very problematic situation that confronts African culture workers when they try to get their stories into the international news media. The author of the story, Mairi Mackay, interviewed me extensively for this story both by telephone (we spoke for close to one hour on an international call from London), and by email (read the CNN story here)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/8nSr2nu6hNE/cnn-story-on-nollywood-problems-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)1<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/8nSr2nu6hNE" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/cnn-story-on-nollywood-problems-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-7930656546492213751Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:47:00 +00002009-06-25T09:52:25.508-07:00nf convention 2009cnn on nollywoodnollywood foundationCNN Report on Nollywood cites Nollywod FoundationThe following report on CNN cites the Nollywood Foundation:Nollywood loses half of film profits to piracy, say producers by Mairi MackayNigeria's huge film industry, Nollywood may have overtaken Hollywood as the world's second largest producer of films, but piracy is threatening to cut the industry off in its prime. Nollywood insiders estimate that up to 50 percent of the industry's profits are http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/s-o9akIr4m4/cnn-report-on-nollywood-cites-nollywod.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/s-o9akIr4m4" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/cnn-report-on-nollywood-cites-nollywod.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-7697635829128482364Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:44:00 +00002009-06-23T06:04:51.919-07:00nf convention 2009bill wynnhakeem kae-kazim4th Nollywood Foundation Convention 2009The 4th Nollywood Foundation Convention 2009 took place last weekend in Los Angeles and was a very successful event. Held in conjunction with the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Nollywood Convention has Actor Celebrity Hakeem Kae-Kazim as its special guest of honor and was attended by a large number of Hollywood celebrities. The Nollywood Convention, in collaboration with South African airways, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/OywTLlKXZbo/4th-nollywood-foundation-convention.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/OywTLlKXZbo" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/4th-nollywood-foundation-convention.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-3270496237887941396Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:33:00 +00002009-06-13T06:22:11.629-07:00luke coleherbert m. coleObituary: Luke Winthrop Cole (1962-2009)The New York Times reports:Luke Cole, Court Advocate for Minorities, Dies at 46By DENNIS HEVESIPublished: June 10, 2009Luke Cole, an early leader of the environmental justice movement, which holds that many minority neighborhoods have become toxic dumping grounds because their residents are poor and powerless, died Saturday in Uganda. He was 46 and lived in San Francisco.Mr. Cole was killed in a http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/nYwHBPcWr5g/obituary-luke-winthrop-cole-1962-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/nYwHBPcWr5g" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/obituary-luke-winthrop-cole-1962-2009.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-8070856580180291991Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +00002009-06-09T08:29:29.318-07:00HAKEEM KAE-KAZIM is Guest of Honor at NF Convention 2009Acclaimed Actor Celebrity HAKEEM KAE-KAZIM is the GUEST OF HONOR for the Nollywood Foundation Convention 2009. Classically trained in the UK, Hakeem came to prominence sharing the stage with acclaimed actors like Brian Cox in ‘King Lear’ and Sir Ian McKellan in “Richard III” for the Royal National Theatre. He made a successful transition to British television with leading roles in “Trial and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/3wJy7-3c3nk/hakeem-kae-kazim-is-guest-of-honor-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/3wJy7-3c3nk" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/hakeem-kae-kazim-is-guest-of-honor-at.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-3859997037559119828Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:12:00 +00002009-06-09T08:18:01.154-07:00sacred places filmSouth African Airwaysnf convention 2009LAFF 2009jean-marie tenoSACRED PLACES (LIEUX SAINTS) Screens at the LAFFNOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION AND the 2009 LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL (LAFF) are proud to invite you to the following screenings hosted by the Nollywood Foundation and South African Airways in collaboration with the Los Angeles Film Festival:SACRED SPACES (LIEUX SAINTS)France/Cameroon | DIR Jean-Marie TénoCAST: Nanema Boubakar, Jules Cesar Bamouni, Abbo Idrissa OuedraogoTracing a lineage from the West http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/IWvuaSaXpRY/sacred-places-lieux-saints-screens-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/IWvuaSaXpRY" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/sacred-places-lieux-saints-screens-at.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-2869385951324348164Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +00002009-06-09T08:12:28.634-07:00sacred places filmnf convention 2009jean-marie tenoLAFFNollywood Foundation Convention 2009All is set for the 2009 Nollywood Foundation Convention, which is scheduled to hold June 19-21 at the Hotel Palomar Los Angeles-Westwood in close proximity to Film Independent's 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. The theme of the Nollywood Foundation Convention 2009 is: Monetizing Nollywood Media: Making the Most of Existing Content. Its goal is to foster initiatives on how best to market existing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/VwmpcaUcJDI/nollywood-foundation-convention-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/VwmpcaUcJDI" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/nollywood-foundation-convention-2009.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950505519760068722.post-4172732309687473746Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:56:00 +00002009-06-09T07:59:47.376-07:00ken saro wiwaoil pollutionnigeria oilogoni struggleshellShell Agrees To Pay $15.5M In Landmark Human Rights CaseThe following important announcement, culled from the Huffington Post, cross-posted from the Associated Press:Nigeria: Shell Agrees To Pay $15.5M In Landmark Human Rights CaseChris KahnNEW YORK — Royal Dutch Shell agreed to a $15.5 million settlement Monday to end a lawsuit alleging that the oil giant was complicit in the executions of activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other civilians by Nigeria's http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Aachronym/~3/tBylyj7z0Nc/shell-agrees-to-pay-155m-in-landmark.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (S. Okwunodu Ogbechie)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Aachronym/~4/tBylyj7z0Nc" height="1" width="1"/>http://aachronym.blogspot.com/2009/06/shell-agrees-to-pay-155m-in-landmark.html