Imagine if there were no main street or highway in your town, only waterways. Have the students write a description or draw a picture of everyday life in your town if the streets were made of water. Imagine if there were no main street or highway in your town, only waterways. Have the students write a description or draw a picture of everyday life in your town if the streets were made of water. Information on the griots - keepers of Mali's tradition of oral history.
Every culture has legends and stories about their great leaders of the past.
Every culture also has keepers of these stories, masters of culture, history, law, etc., like the griots of Mali. Shell and Chevron Wreak Havoc in Nigeria Frank discussion of the devastating human rights abuses and environmental destruction still occurring in the West African country of Nigeria. Mainly because of American oil companies, namely Shell and Chevron, who continue to spend billions of dollars per year in search of new sources of oil at the expense of biodiversity and indigenous cultures. This devastation is funded by oil companies, who are funded by us, the consumers, when we buy their products. Indirectly, we are contributing to this tragedy.