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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. He was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Niger Delta whose homeland, Ogoniland, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
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culture · Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995) · writer · poet · screenwriter · activist · environmentalist · television producer · producer · civil rights advocate · also Ken Saro-Wiwa, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, Ken Saro Wiwa, Saro-Wiwa
Born 10 October 1941 · Died 10 November 1995 · Q316292
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Ken Saro-Wiwa
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Ken Saro-Wiwa : writer and political activist / edited by Craig W. McLuckie, Aubrey McPhail
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BBC: Nigeria pardons activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after execution
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2024· 1 entry
The New Criterion: The perils of activism: Ken Saro-Wiwa
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2021· 1 entry
Moviefone: Ken Saro-Wiwa Lives On!
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2017· 1 entry
To work towards improved access to basic resources such as electricity and Internet for entrepreneurs in Port Harcourt
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2016· 2 entries
Newsweek: Nigeria: Ken Saro Wiwa Jr., Son of Niger Delta Activist, Dies in London
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National Catholic Reporter: Irish archive recalls environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa's life through death-row letters
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2015· 1 entry
Naija Gist - Latest: The final statement of Ken Saro-Wiwa before his execution in 1995
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1996· 1 entry
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Earth Rights International (ERI), Paul Hoffman of Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman and other human rights attorneys brought a series of cases to hold Shell account
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1995· 3 entries
Died 1995-11-10.
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Awarded Goldman Environmental Prize (1995).
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By the military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Right Livelihood Award (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Babangida annulled Nigeria's general elections that would have transferred power to a civilian government, sparking mass civil unrest and eventually forcing him to step down, at least officially, that same year
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1992· 1 entry
Was imprisoned for several months by the Nigerian military government without trial
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1990· 1 entry
Began devoting most of his time to human rights and environmental causes, particularly in the land settled by the Ogoni people
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1987· 1 entry
When he re-entered the political scene, having been appointed by the newly installed dictator Ibrahim Babangida to aid the country's transition to democracy
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1985· 1 entry
The Biafran Civil War novel Sozaboy was published
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1977· 1 entry
Running as the candidate to represent Ogoni in the Constituent Assembly; he lost the election by a narrow margin
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1973· 1 entry
Because of his support for Ogoni autonomy
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1972· 1 entry
And, in 1985, he produced Basi and Company, a television adadption which ran until 1990
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-10-10.
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