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Book Synopsis Genocide in Nigeria by : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Download or read book Genocide in Nigeria written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of newspaper columns and articles mostly written in the 1970s and 1980s perhaps provides the best overview of Saro-Wiwa's political and environmental concerns. The articles document his concerns about the fate of the Ogoni people and their mistreatment by multinational oil companies and collaborating Nigerian government. Saro-Wiwa argues that the Ogoni are a minority in Nigeria, exploited by the ruling ethnic majority, and that the Federal Government of Nigeria was threatening the Ogoni with genocide. At the time, this was a key publication in bringing the Ogoni tragedy to the attention of the international community. Nowadays, it is of continual relevance to present day concerns about the actions of the oil companies, indigenous and environmental rights in the Delta region.
Book Synopsis Before I Am Hanged by : Onookome Okome
Download or read book Before I Am Hanged written by Onookome Okome and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an extensive study of Kenule Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni Minority and Human Rights activist who was judicially murdered in 1995. Questions of nationhood, ethnic minority and power politics in Nigeria are discussed in a collection of essays that examine the corpus of his literary and political ideas, pointing out the direction of his thought and the enduring contribution that Sara-Wiwa made to Nigeria's literary and political arenas.
Book Synopsis Looking for Transwonderland by : Noo Saro-Wiwa
Download or read book Looking for Transwonderland written by Noo Saro-Wiwa and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Ken Saro-Wiwa written by Roy Doron and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans’ struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his human rights and environmental activism, he wore many hats: writer, television producer, businessman, and civil servant, among others. While the book sheds light on his many legacies, it is above all about Saro-Wiwa the man, not just Saro-Wiwa the symbol. Roy Doron and Toyin Falola portray a man who not only was formed by the complex forces of ethnicity, race, class, and politics in Nigeria, but who drove change in those same processes. Like others in the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Ken Saro-Wiwa is written to be accessible to the casual reader and student, yet indispensable to scholars.
Book Synopsis Ogoni's Agonies by : Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah
Download or read book Ogoni's Agonies written by Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a wide range of perspectives on the crisis. It includes detailed historical analyses of the Ogoni people, of Nigerian politics, and of the international responses to the Saro-Wiwa execution. It also includes a strong body of critical responses to the work of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and to his importance as a Nigerian intellectual and activist.
Book Synopsis A Month and a Day by : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Download or read book A Month and a Day written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.
Book Synopsis Ken Saro- Wiwa's Shadow by : Sanya Osha
Download or read book Ken Saro- Wiwa's Shadow written by Sanya Osha and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Niger Delta region of Nigeria had a long standing history of crises even before the late Ken Saro-Wiwa helped to bring these crises to the attention of the world. The international community increasingly needs Nigerian oil largely because of the political dislocations and uncertainties in some of the major oil-producing regions of the world. But unfortunately the crises in the Niger Delta, which produces most of Nigeria's oil, have also been escalating to alarming proportions, often turning the region into a site of seemingly unending uncertainty and conflicts. The book focuses on Ogoniland - one of the oil-producing communities that make up the Niger Delta. It examines the colonial origins of these crises and their links to the dynamics of petroleum exploitation in the region as well as to the structure of Nigeria's contemporary political economy. It relates the ways in which the crises in Ogoniland are connected to the generalised turmoil in the Niger Delta and argues that they are often exacerbated - rather than attenuated - by the Nigerian federal process and its unique combination of militarism, ethnicity and religion.
Download or read book Basi and Company written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basi and Company was the first book of the hugely successful Nigerian comedy television series, which at its peak was watched by an estimated 30 million Nigerians. The New York Times described the show as 'Nigeria's hottest comedy show, [that] seems to have struck a chord because it lampoons modern Nigeria's get-rich-quick mentality'. Basi is an exceptional man, in keeping with the best traditions of tricksters in Yoruba folklore, satirising the get-rich-quick mentality. The author translated the folktale into a contemporary idiom, believing that this format accorded better with African narrative methods.
Book Synopsis Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays by : Adewale Maja-Pearce
Download or read book Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays written by Adewale Maja-Pearce and published by The New Gong. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lemona's Tale written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a quarter of a century, Lemona has been held in a Nigerian prison, her crimes reflecting her passion and despair, her silence masking the truth. On the last day of her life she is visited by Ola, whose parents Lemona killed. To this woman Lemona recounts the events of her upbringing in poverty, the kindness of friends who took her in, and the abuse, corruption and betrayal by men which led to her downfall. though she is awaiting execution, Lemona's desire to understand the forces that shaped her life resonates throughout her story, leading Ola towards a new interpretation of her own history. -- Publisher description.
Book Synopsis In The Shadow Of A Saint by : Ken Wiwa
Download or read book In The Shadow Of A Saint written by Ken Wiwa and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'My father. That's what this is all about. Where does he end and where do I begin?' Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in November 1995. One of Nigeria's best-loved writers and an outspoken critic of military rule, he was a prime mover in bringing the human rights abuses of Shell Oil and the Nigerian military to the attention of the world. His death was headline news internationally. The name of Ken Saro-Wiwa became a potent symbol of the struggle between a traditional way of life and the juggernaut of global commercial interests. What was it like to grow up with such a politically active and socially conscious father? How do you come to terms with your father's imprisonment and execution? How do you cope with the endless international press speculation about your father's life and character? And how do you respond when international attention is focused on you? How do you make your own way in life against your father's expectations of you, especially when you carry the same name? How do you live with such a complex personal history? This frank and memorable depiction of Ken Saro-Wiwa's childhood and relationship with his father vividly recounts the journey he took to answer those questions. Ultimately it is the story of how Ken Wiwa went looking for his father and ended up finding himself.
Book Synopsis Prisoners of Jebs by : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Download or read book Prisoners of Jebs written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Saros International Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Ken Saro-Wiwa by : Craig W. McLuckie
Download or read book Ken Saro-Wiwa written by Craig W. McLuckie and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors examine Saro-Wiwa's literary output both in terms of literary criticism and within a political framework. They give equal attention to his more public roles, including public reaction within Nigeria to his work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book Synopsis Silence Would Be Treason by : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Download or read book Silence Would Be Treason written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Codesria Conseil Pour Le Developpement de La Reche. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize, was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of land and waters by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially Royal Dutch Shell. He was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian military government. His execution on 10 November 1995 by the Abacha regime provoked international outrage and resulted in Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth for over three years.
Book Synopsis Legends from Yorubaland by : Kemi Morgan
Download or read book Legends from Yorubaland written by Kemi Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba eventyr, myter og legender fra Nigeria. Også for voksne
Book Synopsis Ken Saro-wiwa by : Adamu Usman Attaboh
Download or read book Ken Saro-wiwa written by Adamu Usman Attaboh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of Naira lay buried beneath the soils of Ogoni in Rivers State of Nigeria. Between 1958 and 1988, SHELL, a multi-national Oil Company operating in Nigeria had allegedly sucked up over 30 billion Naira, yet leaving the once fertile soil barren. The streams and rivers soon became death traps for fishes and crabs because of its oil spillages. It is time to confront such brazen atrocity on the people and KEN SARO-WIWA mobilizes his kinsmen, albeit through non-violent Ghandian approach, to seek redress and demand for a portion of what rightly belongs to them. But the powers that be did not find this funny. They hanged Ken and his men and pitted the Ogonis against one another. KEN SARO-WIWA - The triumph of a vision focuses on one singular mission and vision of Ken: that of bringing reconciliation to the Ogonis after the storm and giving a voice to the unheard in Black Africa. His words: "We must achieve reconciliation and we must march forward. We are a beacon of hope to many disappearing and despairing groups in the whole of Black Africa". "That the author took time to interview and record formal anecdotal details from some of Ken's close associates explains and expose the depth of research and industry which this budding author has admirably put in this work" - Ledum Mitee (Esq.), President, MOSOP
