In the mid-1990s, a tiny Indigenous people in a remote part of the great Niger Delta became the vanguard of the global struggle against fossil fuels and ecological destruction. Perhaps 60% of the then estimated half-million Ogoni took part in the 1993 Ogoni Day: resisting Shell’s presence in the Delta, the devastation caused to a fishing and farming community by the poisoning of the air and the water, and the combination of exploitation and oppression that resulted. In 1995, the military dictatorship responded with the execution of nine Ogoni activists, most famously the writer, broadcaster and politician Ken Saro-Wiwa, and a campaign of state terror that killed perhaps 2,000 Ogoni along with the destruction of villages, widespread rapes and other atrocities. Today, nearly three decades on, courts around the world are still handling lawsuits against Shell for its roles in the ecological and political violence.