1941 - 1995
Ken Saro-Wiwa Nigerian Writer
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Details
| First Name |
Ken
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| Last Name |
Saro-Wiwa
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| Birthday |
10th October, 1941
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| Birthplace |
Bori, Nigeria
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| Died |
10th November, 1995
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| Place of Death |
Port Harcourt, Nigeria
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Nationality |
Nigerian
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| Occupation Text |
Writer, activist
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| Occupation |
Writer
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Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award for "exemplary courage in striving non-violently for civil, economic and environmental rights" and the Goldman Environmental Prize. 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. Initially as spokesperson, and then as president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company. He was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government, which he viewed as reluctant to enforce environmental regulations on the foreign petroleum companies operating in the area.
