Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the son of Chief Jim Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), … Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Ken Saro-Wiwa. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
THE CASE OF Ken Saro-Wiwa By Chinua Achebe , G.F. Michelsen , Ben Okri , Harold Pinter , Norman Rush , Susan Sontag et al. www.nybooks.com/articles/1913
On 10 November 2005, PEN Centres in 28 countries joined free expression advocates around the world to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the death of Ogoni leader and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/70334
Website of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation. The Right Livelihood Awards are annually presented in the Swedish Parliament and often referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prize. www.rightlivelihood.org/recip/saro-wiwa.htm
Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771041587
