Some twenty four years after Saro-Wiwa’s death, along with eight of his colleagues, who were illegally murdered by the Nigerian Government for their campaign against Shell, a Dutch court today heard from the widows of those hung.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Of Memory and Power
Remembering past struggles against oil: Ida Tarbell, Mohammed Mosaddegh and Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Amnesty: Investigate Shell’s “Complicity in murder, rape and torture” in Nigeria
Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into Shell’s complicity in “murder, rape and torture in Nigeria” in the nineties.
A Living Memorial for Deadened Memories
Nigerian activist Nnimmi Bassey on the state’s efforts to crush memory of the struggle against Shell
Why Nigeria Still Fears Ken Saro-Wiwa
Every year today is the one day that I dread. Even now twenty years on, today does not feel like any other day. It is not a normal day. It was twenty years ago today that the world watched in horror when the Nigerian junta murdered the writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni.