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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey invites a group of young people to use their writing as a form of resistance against oil extraction in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. In his workshops, words are conjured both as balm and a weapon that carries forward the struggle to rebuild community and regain autonomy.

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