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Ken Saro-Wiwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ken Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Ken Saro-Wiwa's daughter Zina Saro-Wiwa is a filmmaker and arts journalist. Ken Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa, writes a letter on openDemocracy.net about the campaign to seek justice for his father in a lawsuit against Shell- "America in Africa: plunderer or part" en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa   (776 words)

Ken Wiwa Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency The eldest son of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the internationally renowned playwright and ecologist, Ken Wiwa was born in Nigeria and educated in England. Ken Wiwa is an author, journalist, broadcaster and social entrepreneur, and one of the world's most engaging young voices for human rights and social justice. Ken Wiwa is one of the world's leading commentators on issues relating to globalization. www.thelavinagency.com /canada/kenwiwa.html   (269 words)

EarthRights International - Resource Center: Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) Ken Saro-Wiwa, John Kpuinen and the others scheduled for execution were beaten, denied food, water or bedding for a period of days prior to their execution. Ken Saro-Wiwa, John Kpuinen and others were arrested because of their non-violent opposition to the activities of Royal Dutch/Shell and the Nigerian military regime. Plaintiff Ken Wiwa brings this action individually and as executor of the estate of his father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, now deceased, who was a subject, citizen, and resident of Nigeria. www.earthrights.org /shell/acomplaint.shtml   (3897 words)

Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government and of the Shell oil company. I respectfully invite you to visit Nigeria so you can see for yourself that indigenous peoples abound there and that they suffer incredibly at the hands of rulers and the economic interests of other nations. archive.8m.net /wiwa.htm   (868 words)

The My Hero Project - Ken Saro Wiwa Ken Saro Wiwa deliberately wrote this book in what he referred to as "rotten English", or the pigeon English that is in common use in Nigeria. That was a statement by Ken Saro Wiwa, prior to his execution by a military tribunal in Nigeria on Nov. 10, 1995. Ken Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, environmentalist and human rights activist. www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=k_sarowiwa   (695 words)

AlterNet: Judge Rules Shell Oil May Be Liable in Activist's Murder Ken Saro-Wiwa, whom I was fortunate enough to call a friend, was such an activist. "This ruling means that the families of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni colleagues may yet get some measure of justice for the unlawful executions and other abuses in which Shell was complicit," said co-counsel Richard Herz, an attorney with EarthRights International. In 1999, Ken's family filed a civil lawsuit against Shell for its role in the persecution and illegal execution of the activists. www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13997   (1243 words)

10.12.2005 - Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Owens Wiwa fled Nigeria in 1995, after his brother, the writer and human-rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was hanged for murder. Wiwa, a physician now based in Toronto, was on campus to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Saro-Wiwa's execution, with eight other MOSOP leaders, on Nov. 10, 1995. He said Saro-Wiwa would periodically visit his medical clinic, where the writer witnessed "the slow genocide of the Ogoni people," most of whom had no electricity or running water, and were dependent on streams polluted by oil spills. www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2005/10/12_Wiwa.shtml   (891 words)

Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) - Nigeria - 1994 Right Livelihood Award Recipient Ken Saro Wiwa (1941-1995) was a member of the Ogoni tribe of some 500,000 people, living in densely populated Ogoniland in south-eastern Nigeria. After a trial which was condemned by international observers, and described as judicial murder by the then British Prime Minister, Ken Saro Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were executed on November 10th 1995. Ken Saro-Wiwa / Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) - Nigeria - 1994 Right Livelihood Award Recipient www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/saro-wiwa.htm   (498 words)

Shell Nigeria boycott Ken Saro-Wiwa's crime was fighting against the exploitation of the Ogoni people and the destruction of their land by oil companies, including Mobil, Chevron, Texaco, and especially Shell. On November 10, 1995, Nigerian poet and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine co-defendants were hanged by General Abacha, the dictator of Nigeria, despite international pleas for clemency. Since Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution, Shell has announced plans to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline from the Niger Delta on Nigeria's coast through Ogoniland. www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Boycotts/ShellNigeria_boycott.html   (262 words)

Ken Saro Wiwa Foundation Canada The Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation was formally established in October, 2004 to honor the memory and continue the work of the Nigerian poet and novelist, environmental and community activist, Kenule Saro-Wiwa, whose non-violent campaign to protect the rights, livelihood and environment of the Ogoni people inspired ordinary people throughout the world. Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his compatriots were executed by the military government of Nigeria after a show trial on November 10, 1995. A commemoration and celebration of the life of Ken Saro-Wiwa that was held on November 10th, 2005 at the Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto. www.kensarowiwa.com   (163 words)

PHR to Exhume Remains of Nigerian Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by hanging despite charges from the international community that Saro-Wiwa's trial before military tribunal was unfair and that he was denied the right of appeal. For 17 years, Ken Saro-Wiwa led protests against multinational oil companies such as Royal Dutch Shell for their alleged collusion with the military regime of General Abacha in widespread abuses and killing of thousands of Ogoni people. That year, the Wiwa family also requested that the government release the bodies of Ken Saro-Wiwa for a proper burial. www.phrusa.org /research/forensics/nigeria/kensaro.html   (764 words)

Remembering Ken Saro Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa and the one that took place in Herman Melville’s novel, Billy Budd. Ken and his eight kinsmen were arraigned before Justice Auta’s Tribunal for murder and were sentenced to death by hanging on October 30 and 31, 1995. (The Ogoni Four enjoyed widespread sympathy, and Badey’s son reportedly described the hanging of Ken as a sign of justice having been done!). www.nigerdeltacongress.com /rarticles/remembering_ken_sarowiwa.htm   (1115 words)

Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa If Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death is to mean anything, then it must be the catalyst, even 10 years after it happened, for new international laws that allow communities, such as the one in which he began and ended his struggle, to seek recompense from business through the law - and not by stockpiling weapons. Ken Saro-Wiwa fell foul of the then military government of Sani Abacha in Nigeria when he led protests against what he saw as the destructive presence of the oil industry in his community. Ken Saro-Wiwa died on 10 November 1995, hanged by the military government of Sani Abacha for protesting against the oil industry in Nigeria. www.pressureworks.org /frontline/features/ksw.html   (1115 words)

IN PRISON WITH KEN SARO-WIWA Ken Saro-Wiwa and the remaining eight Ogoni activists who had also been tried alongside Mitee were not so fortunate, and were sentenced to death by hanging. The Ogoni 19 are a group of Ogoni people who, like Ken Saro-Wiwa, face death by hanging because they sought social and environmental justice for the Ogoni people and their land by campaigning against Shell and the Nigerian military dictatorship. Since Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death on November 10 1995, Mitee has been the Acting President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). www.converge.org.nz /hrag/ledum.html   (1491 words)

Chippla's Weblog - Thoughts on Issues: Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others by the ruling military dictatorship. What made this so unusual was the huge international outcry against such a sentence, before it was actually carried out, and pleas for restraint from foreign governments, civil society and non-governmental organizations in Nigeria. By 10 am state radio in Nigeria (that was before the advent of 24-hour state television) reported the hanging of Mr. chippla.blogspot.com /2005/11/ken-saro-wiwa.html   (462 words)

Tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa was a writer and environmentalist who led the citizen protest against degradation of the Ogoniland region of Nigeria by the oil exploitation of Royal Dutch/Shell. For more information on this case, and to learn more about what you can do to continue Ken's work to help the Ogoni people, please refer to "Crimes of Shell" at Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly. Without a safe environment, humans cannot exist to claim other rights, be they political, social, or economic. www.uky.edu /OtherOrgs/AppalFor/ken.html   (113 words)

Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa To coincide with the ten-year anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and in association with the Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa coalition, ABC is proud to announce the reissue of some of his most loved and lasting works. The late Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995) was a political and environmental activist, a journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer, television and film producer, entrepreneur, public servant and publisher. He is best known as the founding member and leading figure of Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and for his role in the historic Ogoni struggles against the Nigerian federal government and what he termed the oil companies 'ecological war'. www.africanbookscollective.com /saro-wiwa.htm   (1399 words)

KEN SARO WIWA AND 8 OGONI PEOPLE EXECUTED: BLOOD ON SHELL'S HANDS Ken Saro Wiwa was campaigning for what Greenpeace considers the most basic of human rights: the right for clean air, land and water. London--10 November 1995--The blood of Ken Saro-Wiwa will permanently stain the name of Shell, Greenpeace said today in response to the news that Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were, according to widespread rumours, hanged this morning in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. "Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged today for speaking out against the environmental damage to the Niger Delta caused by Shell Oil through its 37 years of drilling in the region. archive.greenpeace.org /comms/ken/murder.html   (452 words)

The Observer Politics Britain honours hanged hero as legal war rages on It is nearly 10 years since Ken Saro-Wiwa, activist and writer, and eight colleagues were put to death following their campaign against the environmental impact of oil companies in the Niger Delta. Wiwa brought the civil lawsuit in 1996, but Shell has repeatedly attempted to get it thrown out. But Wiwa is fighting another battle for his father's legacy. observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1441923,00.html   (400 words)

10th NOVEMBER 1996: 1st ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF KEN SARO-WIWA The Ken Saro Wiwa homepage chronicles the plight of the Ogoni people in Nigeria and the activities of Shell exploration. On this, the occasion of the first anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow activists, Greenpeace woud like to comment on the context giving rise to this senseless tragedy. The Ken Saro Wiwa CD-ROM from Indigo is available through mail-order archive.greenpeace.org /~comms/ken   (514 words)

Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Saro-Wiwa: Ken Saro-Wilwa was executed by the Nigerian Government on November 10th, 1995. He was recipient of the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize for Africa and he founded the Movement for the Survival of the Orgoni People in Nigeria's Rivers State. www.nigeriainfonet.com /Srchdata/ken_sarowiwa.htm   (41 words)

Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni colleagues were executed by the Nigerian state for campaigning against the devastation of the Niger Delta by oil companies, especially Shell and Chevron. The winners were announced at a commemoration ceremony attended by Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka and Saro-Wiwa’s son, Ken Wiwa. Ken Wiwa and his two sons at the Ken Saro-Wiwa commemoration ceremony on London's South Bank, 10 November 2005 ( www.remembersarowiwa.com   (344 words)

The perils of activism Ken Saro-Wiwa by Anthony Daniels Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged in Port Harcourt prison—at the fifth attempt—on November 10, 1995. he last time I visited the Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa in Port Harcourt, two years before he was hanged in the city’s prison, the naked corpse of a man lay on the sidewalk of the Aggrey Road, about a hundred yards from his office. The perils of activism Ken Saro-Wiwa by Anthony Daniels www.newcriterion.com /archive/18/jan00/sarowiwa.htm   (3026 words)

BBC News AFRICA Symbolic funeral for Saro-Wiwa Mr Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa, said his father's legacy was enduring and that his struggle continued. Thousands of people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria have attended the symbolic funeral of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the writer and minority-rights activist who was executed by the former military government five years ago. The killing of Mr Saro-Wiwa, together with several other ethnic Ogoni militants sparked off international condemnation and drew attention to the plight of the indigenous people of the Niger Delta. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/725009.stm   (291 words)

Britain: Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa The execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues was an attempt to silence their campaign against the devastation of the Niger Delta by the global oil industry. Sculptor Sokari Douglas Camp proposes a transformed Nigerian bus, emblazoned with the words of Ken Saro-Wiwa; multimedia artist Siraj Izhar proposes an LED light portrait of Saro-Wiwa, electrified by cycle-power. Remember Saro-Wiwa is a unique public art initiative – The Living Memorial – dedicated to Ken, his colleagues, and the issues that they fought and died for. www.indexonline.org /en/news/articles/2005/4/britain-remember-ken-saro-wiwa.shtml   (354 words)

The New York Review of Books: THE CASE OF KEN SARO-WIWA In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, we in PEN believe that Ken Saro-Wiwa has been arrested solely for his work with the MOSOP, including his articles critical of the Nigerian government's environmental policies in Ogoniland and its treatment of the Ogoni people. The trial against Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian writer and Honorary Member of PEN American Center, finally began on February 21 after numerous false starts. * Immediately transfer Ken Saro-Wiwa's case to a standard, civil court; www.nybooks.com /articles/1913   (636 words)

Satya Dec. 97: Ken Saro-Wiwa by Edwin Madunagu Two years ago, on November 10, 1995, environmentalist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged by the Nigerian government, along with eight other activists seeking to protect the Ogoni people and their environment from the ravages of oil production by Shell. Such people, according to Machiavelli, will be destroyed...the possibility of violence became an actuality in the case of Saro-Wiwa because of the seriousness and immediacy of the threat which the Nigerian hegemonic political blocs perceived in his campaigns.... Royal Dutch/Shell, the second largest oil corporation in the world (after Exxon), is the prime extractor of oil in the Ogoni region of Nigeria; its operations provide 40 percent of the Nigerian government's revenues from oil. www.satyamag.com /dec97/prophet.html   (480 words)

Goldman Prize: Recipient Profile Ken Saro Wiwa's life has provided a legacy of great inspiration for human rights and environmental activists around the world. The Ogoni cause has since been taken up by other Ogoni living in exile including Ken's son, Ken Wiwa and his younger brother, Owens, a medical doctor. Despite the sudden death of Nigerian Dictator General Sani Abacha in 1998, the Ogoni region remains heavily militarized and the government has yet to agree to allow an independent environmental assessment to be conducted to determine the total extent of Shell's pollution in the Niger Delta. www.goldmanprize.org /recipients/recipientProfile.cfm?recipientID=45   (422 words)

Amazon.com: A Month and a Day : A Detention Diary: Books Ken Saro-Wiwa its author was crudely exterminated with eight others on a farce of a trial- a militarized set-up tribunal of the despised tyrannt of Sani Abacha in 1995. In a way Ken Saro-Wiwa, credenced the fact that all ethnic nationalities must radically be allowed to shape their destiny and control their resources. Ken did not leave out the Nigerian Police and their inhumanity- dogs who devour the flesh of other dogs- in fact they act like "vulture." A loaded term in Ogoni parlance! www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140259147?v=glance   (1242 words)

a burst of light... *: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Ken Wiwa: 'Committed to remembering' his father, writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa: On this tenth anniversary, around the world, thousands of people are actively preventing that erasure of memory; from the Remember Saro-Wiwa project in London to the vigils being held from Thailand to South Africa. Looking back, the issues my father died for - greater political and ecological accountability in the oil industry - are now at the front and centre of international affairs with climate change and the war on terror dominating world affairs. www.ronntaylor.com /bulbs/000691.html   (201 words)

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