Chima Williams, an attorney in Nigeria, is one of the winners of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize. He sued Shell over oil spills in his country. Speaking of his activism, Williams notes: "There is power in what you believe and how you go about it uncompromisingly." (KC Nwakalor for NPR)
The first time Nigerian environmental lawyer Chima Williams took on the establishment he was 12 years old.
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