ANUNU UWAWAH AND DOLL DANCING came out of news stories from Nigeria added to my growing up in
the “oil patch”. News stories about the oil industry often interest me. Anunu
Uwawah was one of the women who took ChevronTexaco oil workers hostage by
threatening to strip, take off their clothes! She and the other women won concessions from the big
company by non-violent means.
Ken Saro Wiwa was a leader of the
non-violent resistance to the exploitation of his people by his government and big
oil companies. He was murdered in 1995 by the Nigerian dictator. Some of the
practices that Mr. Saro Wiwa objected to are the ones that led Phillips, Texas
(my former home) becoming a Super Fund site. The imagery is just about
capturing a feeling or a mood.
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