Using Knight Lab's StoryMap platform, this interactive journey traces the 267-kilometer flow of the Osun River from its headwaters through central Yorubaland to the Lagos Lagoon and ultimately the Atlantic Gulf of Guinea. Going beyond a geographical exploration, it is a multimedia narrative that weaves together scientific evidence, cultural testimony, and environmental data to create a comprehensive understanding of how pollution affects real communities. From audio recordings of illegal miners; who worked the sites for over a decade, providing firsthand accounts of mining practices and their observable environmental impacts to devotees explaining their continued faith in the river's healing powers despite visible pollution, researchers and scentists who make complex environmental science accesible to general audiences and interviews with government officals who speak about regulatory challenges, all of these testimonies illuminate how environmental crises intersect with spiritual practices and cultural identity.
Explore how geography, culture, and environmental science intersect in this immersive narrative experience.
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