• Beeson Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a...
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  • Kenule "Ken" Bornale Tsaro-Wiwa (born Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr.; 28 November 1968 – 18 October 2016), although he himself chose to use the name Ken Wiwa, was a...
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  • Noo Saro-Wiwa is a British-Nigerian author, noted for her travel writing. She is the daughter of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Noo Saro-Wiwa was born...
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  • spokesman and founder Ken Saro-Wiwa, in November 1995. Oil was discovered in the Niger delta in 1957. MOSOP was founded in 1990 by Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni chiefs...
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  • Ogoni Nine (category Ken Saro-Wiwa)
    head of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Ken Saro-Wiwa, alongside eight of his fellow leaders—Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel...
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  • was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, to Ken and Maria Saro-Wiwa. Her late father, the author and poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, became a well-known Nigerian environmental...
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    The Wiwa family lawsuits against Royal Dutch Shell were three separate lawsuits brought in 1996 by the family of Ken Saro-Wiwa against Royal Dutch Shell...
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    particularly with regards to the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Sani Abacha was considered one of the twentieth century's most corrupt...
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    Wiwa (born 10 October 1957 in Bori, Nigeria) is a medical doctor and human rights activist. He is the brother of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa,...
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    extend beyond the next three or four villages”, but that soon changed. Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late president of MOSOP, described the transition this way: “if...
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  • Sozaboy (category Ken Saro-Wiwa)
    postmodern anti-war novel by the late author and political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, published in 1985. The novel was written in pidgin English, a variation...
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  • Council of Chiefs of Bane Ken Wiwa (1968–2016), also known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, Jr, Nigerian journalist and author Ken Saro-Wiwa, (1941–1995), Nigerian writer...
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  • NTA, and was later syndicated across Africa. Written and produced by Ken Saro-Wiwa and filmed in Enugu, the show derived inspiration from African folklore...
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  • Jerry Gana as chairman and Ken Saro Wiwa as one of its directors. However, after a few months as a director, Ken Saro Wiwa left the directorate. The directorate...
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    arrested some of the protest leaders. Some of these arrested protesters, Ken Saro-Wiwa being the most prominent, were later executed, against widespread international...
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    writing lyrics, starting with Sankaritar ("Heroine") and Ken Saro-Wiwa on kuollut ("Ken Saro-Wiwa is dead"). The band toured throughout 1996 and published...
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  • in Nigeria is a 2012 non-fiction memoir and travelogue by Noo Saro-Wiwa. In it Saro-Wiwa travels across Nigeria, re-discovering the country of her birth...
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  • MOSOP leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and others were arrested on charges of involvement in the murders. Komo proclaimed in advance that Saro-Wiwa was "guilty of...
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  • State, southern Nigeria. It is the birthplace of author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Bori is the traditional headquarters of the Ogoni people. It serves...
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  • Ken Saro-Wiwa and of doctor and human-rights activist Owens Wiwa, and the grandfather of journalist Ken Wiwa. Fox, Margalit (9 April 2005). "Jim Wiwa...
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    social and environmental justice from the federal government, with Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni tribe as the lead figures for this phase of the struggle...
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    continuing civilian unrest. In 1995, the government hanged environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa on trumped-up charges in the deaths of four Ogoni elders, which caused...
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  • November, which derived its title from the month in which activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995, is a reissued version of the 2011 film Black Gold...
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  • Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic (formerly Rivers State Polytechnic) is a tertiary learning institution in Bori City, Khana Local Government Area in...
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    Corazon Aquino, Mahatma Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, U Thant, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Fazle Hasan Abed as people who "never won the prize, but should...
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    Niyi Osundare Jude Rabo, Vice-Chancellor of Federal University, Wukari Ken Saro-Wiwa Kashim Shettima, Vice President-elect of Nigeria Fisayo Soyombo, investigative...
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    between 11 November 1995 and 29 May 1999, following its execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa on the eve of the 1995 CHOGM. Pakistan was the second country to be...
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    numeric names: authors list (link)) Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1992). Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy. London: Saros International Publishers. ISBN 1870716221...
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    have". The list consisted of Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sari Nusseibeh, Corazon Aquino, and Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo would go...
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    march took place on 10 November, the anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight other anti-Shell activists in Nigeria in 1995. When protesters...
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