Amadanyo's Vision
Due to the impact of oil exploration and exploitation over the last 50 years by the oil companies such as Shell, Exxon, Agip, etc., the wildlife, aquatic animals, and cultural lifeways that once thrived in the lush Mangrove Forest of the Niger-Delta region of Southern Nigeria have slowly disappeared. The Mangrove Forest has therefore become an almost silent forest. Amadanyo has taken up the fight for preservation and restoration of the Mangrove Forest in his homeland and answered the call to end the desecration of the sacred Niger Delta region and views this as a cause much worthy of the global community’s attention. Supporting his music and his cause is vital to the future of the Mangrove Forest and Mother Earth. He plans to use proceeds from the sale of his CD, “Voices From the Mangrove,” towards the revitalization of the Mangrove Forest and the culture of his people in the Niger Delta Region.
sweetcrudemovie.comThe man who shall be king
This is the story of Amadanyo, a world music artist from Nigeria who has resided in Seattle, Washington, USA since November 20, 1982. His story is truly like Eddie Murphy’s movie, “Coming to America.” His name in his native tongue, Nembe, means “He shall be King” and his name has now become a plea continuously being made by his people of Eyimama, a now-extinct small Nembe town located deep in the Niger Delta region. Since Amadanyo came to America, he has truly adapted to the American lifestyle, and like the Eddie Murphy storyline in “Coming to America,” he has found his “Queen,” who, of all places hails from Omak, Washington, and who was born and raised on the reservation of the Colville Confederated Tribes. Amadanyo would like to go back home to reclaim his land and his throne, to live up to the true meaning of his name.
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Niger Delta people This website is about the people of the Ijaw Nation - it also has links to the website of the activist group, MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta). It is a very informative website overall in apprising the global community-at-large of the plight of the Ijaw People (the ethnic group under which the Nembe, Amadanyo’s people, are classified). Only recently, the media has begun to pay attention to the cause of the Ijaw Peoples: the simple fact that the people of the Niger Delta are not benefiting from their land’s natural resources (oil) being siphoned by foreign interests and continue to live in extreme, abject poverty, environmental desecration, and cultural degradation while only a select few “leaders” in the Niger Delta region benefit from their partnerships with the oil companies.
The Nembe are a part of the Ijaw People. They are activists fighting extermination by outside forces that want oil. Ijaw Declaration or here
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