The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights of the Ogoni people of Nigeria.
The author attempts to understand his father, a popular Nigerian author who was executed in 1995 for leading the campaign for human rights against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government.
The author attempts to understand his father, a popular Nigerian author who was executed in 1995 for leading the campaign for human rights against Shell Oil and the Nigerian government.
"This is a full-length study of Kenule Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni Minority and Human Rights activist who was judicially murdered on November 10, 1995. One remarkable feature of the essays selected for this volume is the intensity of each contributor's voice to the very controversial m…
This project takes the author Ken Saro-Wiwa as its focal point in order to explore the archive of narratives, including his own, that revolve around the Ogoni movement for economic, environmental and political rights in Nigeria. The dissertation argues that Saro-Wiwa's image is …
