Ken Saro-Wiwa Quotes
I've often envied those writers in the Western world who can peacefully practice their craft and earn a living thereby. I cannot say that I would not have preferred that to the dangerous paths through which my art is taking me. However, we must go where the spirit moves us, and I can only hope that my travails will have brought pleasure in the future to many more people than my books will probably have done.
He had become a community organizer and activist to protest the corruption and uneven distribution of oil resources of Nigeria. He and 8 others were executed by the military dictatorship which controlled Nigeria. See {586597} and {586596}.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1941-1995, Nigerian Writer & Television Producer, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People President of the Ethnic Minority Rights Organization of Africa President of the Association of Nigerian Authors Letter from Prison to an intern who had written him from PEN America
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He and 8 others were executed by the military dictatorship which controlled Nigeria. It was led by General Sani Abacha who was the chief “goon” to whom he was referring. His observation is fundamental of protest activities in countries of high illiteracy. Printed literature is relatively impotent in an oral, illiterate country. But “literature in the streets” is the oral protest of large groups of people. Because he was so effective at organizing this, he was executed on trumped up charges and his bidy hidden from his followers and relatives. See {586598} and {586597}.
He and 8 others were executed by the military dictatorship which controlled Nigeria. It was led by General Sani Abacha who was the chief “goon” to whom he was referring. His observation is a fundamental of protest activities in countries of high illiteracy. Printed literature is relatively impotent in an oral, illiterate country. But “literature in the streets” is the oral protest of large groups of people. Because he was so effective at organizing this, he was executed on trumped up charges and his body hidden from his followers and relatives. See {586598} and {586596}.
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
