KEN SARO-WIWA: AN OGONI LAND ACTIVIST

Описание: The people of Ogoni land in Rivers State faced challenges during the Nigerian military regime. They were an ethnic minority in Nigeria in the Niger Delta, targeted for crude oil extraction, and have suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Ken Saro-Wiwa, whose home town was the same Ogoni land, began devoting most of his time to human rights and environmental causes, particularly in the land settled by the Ogoni people. He was one of the earliest members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), which advocated for the rights of the Ogoni people.
The Nigerian activist Kenule, or Ken Sarowiwa, was born on October 10, 1941, in Bori, a small town in the Niger Delta. His father, Jim Wiwa, was a chief of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Delta region. He was married to Maria Saro-Wiwa, and they had five children who lived with their mother in the United Kingdom while their father stayed in Nigeria. Saro-Wiwa spent his childhood in an Anglican home and eventually proved himself to be an excellent student; he received primary education at a Native Authority school in Bori, then attended secondary school at Government College Umuahia. At Umuahia, he was the only student from Ogoni Land, and fellow students were mandated to speak English, which made Saro-Wiwa feel Nigerian; he embraced the language as a useful way to communicate with a larger audience at home and abroad.

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