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Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (d. 1995)

Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, and 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 has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.

10 October 1941

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