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Oronto Douglas

Life Oronto Douglas was born on August 6, 1966 in Okoroba, Nigeria. He studied law at the University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt, and later gained his LL.M. in Environmental Law at the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Oronto was married and leaves two sons. Work Oronto was a junior counsel on the defence team for Ken Saro-Wiwa, during his trial by military tribunal under the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. In 1993, Oronto was co-founder with Nnimmo Bassey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnimmo_Bassey) of Environmental Rights Action, based in Benin City. Oronto was an advisor to the governor of Bayelsa State, and to President Goodluck Jonathan. References
 * http://nnimmo.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/oronto-douglas-unbreakable-spirit.html
 * ‘Where Vultures Feast’ Oronto Douglas and Ike Okonta, Verso 2003 (https://www.versobooks.com/books/856-where-vultures-feast)
 * ‘Niger Delta Ecosystems – the ERA Handbook, 1998’, Nick Ashton-Jones with Oronto Douglas and Susi Arnott (link to WikiSource once this is ‘validated and published’)
 * Collected poetry (link to WikiSource once this is ‘validated and published’)
 * ‘Delta 1993’ collected photographs, Sara Leigh-Lewis (link to WikiSource once this is collated, assigned creative commons copyright, uploaded, ‘validated and published’)

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