"Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member...
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Wiwa may refer to: Given name Wiwa Korowi (born 1948), sixth Governor-General of Papua New Guinea Surname Jim Wiwa (1904–2005), chief of the Ogoni people...
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The Wiwa people, also known as the Damana people, are an indigenous people of Colombia that speak Dʉmʉna, of the Chibchan language family, and live in...
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Bornale Tsaro-Wiwa (28 November 1968 – 18 October 2016), also known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, Jr, although he himself chose to use the name Ken Wiwa, was a Nigerian...
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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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Sir Wiwa Korowi GCMG (born 7 July 1948) is a Papua New Guinean politician who served as the sixth governor-general of Papua New Guinea from November 1991...
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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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Wiwa, Arosario, Arsario, Guamaca, Guamaka, Maracasero, Marocasero, Sancá, Sanja, Sanka, Wamaka) is a Chibchan language spoken by the indigenous Wiwa people...
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Zina Saro-Wiwa (born 1976, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) is a Brooklyn-based video artist and filmmaker. She makes video installations, documentaries, music...
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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (category Ken Saro-Wiwa)
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 when...
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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, Nigerian...
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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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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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WIWA (1270 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a Christian talk and teaching format. Licensed to Eatonville, Florida, it serves the Greater...
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particularly with regards to the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. At the same time his regime oversaw the achievement of several economic...
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civilian unrest. In 1995, the government hanged environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa on trumped-up charges in the deaths of four Ogoni elders, which caused Nigerian's...
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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 have...
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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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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 you...
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Peter Coyote, American actor, director, and screenwriter 1941 – Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (d. 1995) 1942 – Janis Hansen, American singer...
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Pallacanestro Cantù (redirect from Wiwa Vismara Cantù)
Ford Cantù (1982–83) Jollycolombani Cantù (1983–85) Arexons Cantù (1985–88) Wiwa Vismara Cantù (1988–90) Shampoo Clear Cantù (1990–94) Polti Cantù (1994–99)...
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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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authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)) Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1992). Genocide in Nigeria: The Ogoni Tragedy. London: Saros International...
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Controversies Corrib gas controversy Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Wiwa v Royal Dutch Shell People André Bénard John Jennings...
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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 suspended...
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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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Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT, GCMG, FRSE Governor of Hong Kong 1991 89 Sir Wiwa Korowi GCMG Governor-General of Papua New Guinea 1992 76 Sir James Carlisle...
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The list consisted of Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Václav Havel, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sari Nusseibeh, Corazon Aquino, and Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo would go on to...
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blogger and novelist Edith Pretty, philanthropist and magistrate Zina Saro-Wiwa, video artist and filmmaker Jillian Becker, author Dorothy Theomin, philanthropist...
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Controversies Corrib gas controversy Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Wiwa v Royal Dutch Shell People André Bénard John Jennings...
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