Growing up in southern Nigeria during the 1970s, Bubaraye Dakolo would easily catch 20 kilograms of fish within minutes. These days, a fisherman casts nets all night, only to bring back just about three kilograms.
Dakolo is now the monarch of Ekpetiama, a kingdom in the southern coastal state of Bayelsa, a custodian of peace and tradition, and a former soldier. And he has risen to be one of the country's prominent environmental crusaders.
When Shell announced earlier this year it was divesting its onshore assets without first addressing decadeslong oil pollution, he decided silence was not an option for a royal.
He sued one of the world's oil giants to force it to clean up
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