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	Vanguard - Arts: I want to be part of the Nigerian literary community—Ken Wiwa
		KEN Bornale Wiwa sits behind his glass topped, forged hand-cast, antique iron table, tapping away on the laptop in front of him, in a pose reminiscent of his late father, Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, in another age, behind a different table, tapping away at another kind of typewriter.
		Ken Wiwa says the Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation, Nigeria, was essentially meant to explore all the complexities of all the issues and puzzles that attended his father’s life and activities.
		Ken Wiwa has three books in the pipeline, but he is greatly hampered and frustrated by the lack of time to pursue the stories to satisfying conclusions.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at123042006.html (2464 words)

	Ken Wiwa Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
		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.
		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 one of the world's leading commentators on issues relating to globalization.
	www.thelavinagency.com /canada/kenwiwa.html (269 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.
		Owens Wiwa, by contrast, remembered his brother as a man of peace, someone who was "a little bit rich" but who was disturbed at the plight of the Ogoni, and determined "from the outset" there should be "no violence" in the MOSOP-led campaign.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2005/10/12_Wiwa.shtml (860 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)

	Ken Saro-Wiwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmental activist.
		Ken spent childhood in a polygamous household of Anglican faith and eventually proved himself an excellent student, netting him a scholarship to study English at Government College in Umauhia.
		Ken's death provoked international outrage and the immediate suspension of Nigeria from the Commonwealth of Nations, which was meeting in New Zealand at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa (1060 words)

	Saro-Wiwa, Kenule Beeson - Great Men and Women of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was educated at the University of Ibadan and at Goverment College, Umuahia, where he later taught.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was eventually released as a result of intense international pressure.
		In May 1994, Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others were arrested for the deaths of four prominent Ogoni elders who were suspected of collaborating with military authorities.
	homepage.oanet.com /jaywhy/ken.htm (458 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.
		Ken was released from prison that August, but was rearrested the following year on trumped-up charges, along with eight other Ogoni environmental activists.
		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 (1253 words)

	Ken Saro-Wiwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ken Saro-Wiwa--born Kenule Benson Tsaro-Wiwa--was born at Bori on 10 October, 1941.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa then abandoned academia but not his love for the arts.
		The rest is an "intense dedication to the medium of English." Ken Saro-Wiwa continues to write, operating on two distinct levels: that of pure English and that of which he calls "rotten English," a local, pidginized Nigerian variety of limited communication.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/sarowiwa/sarowiwabio.html (321 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.
		In the early 1990s, Ogoni activists, the first to protest against the inequalities in the manner in which oil revenues were distributed in Nigeria, also demanded billions of dollars in compensation and royalties from the oil companies for illnesses associated with oil spills and environmental pollution in the Niger River Delta.
	www.phrusa.org /research/forensics/nigeria/kensaro.html (764 words)

	Ken Saro-Wiwa
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was born Kenule Benson Tsaro-Wiwa in Bori, Rivers State, the son of Jim Beesom Wiwa, a businessman and community chief, and Widy, a farmer.
		The author's son, Ken Wiwa, has confessed that it was never natural for him to continue in his father's footsteps.
		by Clifford Thompson (1999); Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria, ed.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /saro.htm (1059 words)

	Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa
		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'.
		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.
	www.africanbookscollective.com /saro-wiwa.htm (1361 words)

	Remembering Ken Saro Wiwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ken Saro-Wiwa and the one that took place in Herman Melville’s novel, Billy Budd.
		But his case was equally worsened by an unprecedented global and local “support” and media blitz, coupled with an unfortunate underestimation and under-appreciation of the grand forces that were at play in the Ogoni phenomenon.
		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.
	nigerdeltacongress.com /rarticles/remembering_ken_sarowiwa.htm (1115 words)

	Writers remember Ken Saro Wiwa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Coincidentally, Malawi PEN founding member Edson Mpina was among the few who bade farewell to Saro Wiwa in the judgement hall when Saro Wiwa and nine others were convicted of murder by a tribunal handpicked by the Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha.
		There were also poetry recitals from writers Andrew Munthali who did In Memory of Saro Wiwa and The Uninvited Visitor and Kondwani Kamiyala who took the floor with The Duel, a narrative poem that looks into the early stages of John Chilembwe’s Malawi liberation struggle that ended in his execution in 1915.
		Ken Saro Wiwa was born in October 1941.
	www.nationmalawi.com /print.asp?articleID=13920 (603 words)

	Friends of the Earth: Campaigns: Corporates: News: Remember Saro-Wiwa
		An initiative to create a Living Memorial for the activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa was launched at City Hall in London on the 22 March, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the writer's death.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were executed by the Nigerian Government on 10 November 1995 following their campaign against the devastating environmental impacts of oil companies - including Shell - in the Niger Delta.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was a truly inspirational man. A living, mobile memorial will help ensure that his legacy continues to thrive.
	www.foe.co.uk /campaigns/corporates/news/remember_saro_wiwa.html (276 words)

	Nigerian Times: Ken Saro-Wiwa: Not Yet Uhuru
		So, the Niger Delta struggle is not the monopoly of the Ken Saro-Wiwa family or the Ogoni people, but the struggle for the survival and wellbeing of the people of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was a successful businessman, novelist, television producer and political activist in Nigeria.Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 - November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer and environmental activist.
		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.
	nigeriantimes.blogspot.com /2005/11/ken-saro-wiwa-not-yet-uhuru.html (1058 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.
		More reluctant attention has been paid to the environmental damage done by oil exploration: as of mid-1999, no substantial action had been taken by the government and MOSOP continued to demand that Shell conduct an environmental assessment of Ogoni and clean up the effects of its operations.
	www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/saro-wiwa.htm (498 words)

	Factsheet on the Ogoni Struggle
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was seized from his home by armed forces at 1:00 am on the 22nd of May. On the 25th of May, Saro-Wiwa managed to smuggle out a statement from the Bori Military Camp where he was being held without charges against him.
		Mr Ken Wiwa, the son of the imprisoned MOSOP leader, failed to secure an audience with President Mandela, even when information was received that Ken's execution was immenent.
		Ken Saro Wiwa was executed on a hastily built gallows in Port Harcourt on the morning of the 10th of November.
	www.ratical.org /corporations/OgoniFactS.html (3432 words)

	Choike - Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and the struggle for justice in Nigeria
		Like the sun that illuminates all that it touches, Saro-Wiwa’s work beamed a powerful searchlight on the crummy corners of the Nigerian state, illuminating the sordid acts of injustice and oppression that have been visited on the poor and the powerless in the country since it was cobbled together by imperial Britain in 1914.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa had written a small pamphlet in 1990 in which he spelled out the grievances of the Ogoni against the Nigerian state and Shell that was exploiting several oil fields in the area and had subjected the farmlands and fishing rivers of local people to devastation.
		A few months after it was published, Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni worthies banded together and established the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), a grassroots political organization they planned to use as a vehicle to achieve all the demands and goals in the Ogoni Bill of Rights.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/3475.html (1727 words)

	Amazon.com: Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria: Books: Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The killing of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others by the Nigerian Military regime serves as a watershed for re-examining the roles of multinational companies in contemporary Africa, and the collaborations of military dictatorship in the perpetuation of human and environmental abuses in Nigeria.
		This collection is thus the first to engage comprehensively with the crisis in postcolonial Nigeria, and to assess the many works of Ken Saro-Wiwa - his novels, his television series, his short stories, his critical writings, his works as a publisher and cultural manager, and his work as politician and environmental activist.
		This volume of essays and poems is a befitting tribute to a hero who literally laid down his life for a just cause: the unrelenting crusade against the rape and debasement of his homeland by multinational oil corporations, that without conscience, provided self-sustenance for a completely corrupt and evil military junta.
	www.amazon.com /Ogonis-Agonies-Saro-Wiwa-Crisis-Nigeria/dp/0865436479 (993 words)

	The perils of activism Ken Saro-Wiwa by Anthony Daniels
		The perils of activism Ken Saro-Wiwa by Anthony Daniels
		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.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged in Port Harcourt prison—at the fifth attempt—on November 10, 1995.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/18/jan00/sarowiwa.htm (3026 words)

	Ken Saro-Wiwa \| Goldman Prize
		The only crime he and his colleagues had committed was to demand sound environmental practices and to ask for compensation for the devastation of Ogoni territories.
		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.
		Ken Saro Wiwa's life has provided a legacy of great inspiration for human rights and environmental activists around the world.
	www.goldmanprize.org /node/160 (430 words)

	KEN SARO WIWA AND 8 OGONI PEOPLE EXECUTED: BLOOD ON SHELL'S HANDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Ken Saro Wiwa was campaigning for what Greenpeace considers the most basic of human rights: the right for clean air, land and water.
	archive.greenpeace.org /comms/ken/murder.html (452 words)

	Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa - Dance the Guns to Silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The anthology has a Foreword written by Ken Wiwa and editorial advisory from the renowned Malawian poet, now living in exile in Britain, Jack Mapanje.
		Some poets (Stewart Brown, Jack Mapanje, Chenjerai Hove, Niyi Osundare) had already written poems in honour of Ken after his killing and their poems can also be found in their collections, many others wrote new poems for this book.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa - the Legacy: Freedom of expression; resistance (literary and otherwise); imprisonment; non-violence; political oppression; leadership.
	www.remembersarowiwa.com /poetry.htm (322 words)

	Ken Saro Wiwa
		It is also a time to remember the many other journalists killed in the line of duty.
		Ken Saro-Wiwa was an Ogoni, one of about half a million ethnic minority Nigerian people who live in the oil-rich delta region.
		• And in 2001, a lawsuit against Shell Oil Co., brought under the Alien Tort Law Claims Act by Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa, survived motions for dismissal and remains active in federal court for the Southern District of New York.
	www.runet.edu /~wkovarik/misc/blog/17.wiwa.html (1080 words)

	Ken Wiwa - Nigeria Arts.net - Home of Nigerian Arts on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ken Wiwa is an author, journalist, broadcaster and human rights activist.
		Ken Wiwa is the Managing Director of Saros International and a feature writer for the Toronto Globe and Mail.
		He is also a Saul Rae Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies and a senior resident of Massey College at the University of Toronto.
	www.nigeria-arts.net /literature/journalism/Ken_Wiwa (141 words)

	No. 1322: Ken Saro-Wiwa
		A Death in Nigeria: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the CSR Movement
		Thursday, Nov. 10, will mark the tenth anniversary of the killing of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian activist who claimed that the regime of dictator Sani Abacha and Royal Dutch/Shell together were complicit in oppressing his Ogoni tribe.
		The company concluded that dramatic change was needed to repair its brand -- particularly as the industry was entering an era in which oil increasingly was being discovered in politically difficult places like Nigeria, and much less often in places like the Norwegian offshore or West Texas.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1322.html (2356 words)

	II Journal: Ken Saro-Wiwa: 1941-1995: A nation and its parts
		II Journal: Ken Saro-Wiwa: 1941-1995: A nation and its parts
		Ken Saro-Wiwa: A Nation and its Parts, 1941-1995
		Noted Nigerian author, poet, political activist, and leader of the Ogoni people, Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged along with eight of his colleagues on November 10, 1995 for their alleged involvement in the May 1994 slayings of four Ogoni elders.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol3no2/v3n2_KenSaroWiwa.html (778 words)

	Saro-Wiwa Ken - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1941-1995), Nigerian author and environmental activist, whose work aggressively satirized contemporary Nigerian culture and...
		Criticism of the regime intensified dramatically after the execution on November 10 of writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, despite international pleas for...
		Saro-Wiwa, Ken, Letter to William Boyd (quotations): Writing: The most important thing for…
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Saro-Wiwa_Ken.html (142 words)

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