Nnimmo Bassey is an architect, writer and director of the ecological think-tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) based in Nigeria and member of the steering committee of Oilwatch International – a network resisting the expansion of fossil fuels extraction in the Global South. He chaired of Friends of the Earth International (2008-2012). He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award also known as the “Alternative Noble Prize.” In 2012 he received the Rafto Human Rights Award. Bassey received honorary doctorate degrees from University of York (UK) in 2019 and from York University (Canada) in 2023.
Bassey’s books include To Cook a Continent – Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa (2012) and Oil Politics – Echoes of Ecological War (2016). His poetry collections include: We Thought it Was Oil But It Was Blood (2002), I will not Dance to Your Beat (2011), and I See the Invisible (2023).