You always view a place in hindsight, filtered through your own life experiences. For me, that experience has been shaped ...

When campaigners stopped Shell operations in the region in 1993, Nigerian poet and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were hanged by the government, sparking international outrage. This time, ...

By Pope Pen ON FEBRUARY 23, 2005, the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, played host to what may well qualify as the largest assembly of Ijaw sons and daughters up to that time. They came from within and ...

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to tread carefully in the ...

a Nigerian ‘sun’ (apologies to Saro Wiwa). From 1999, leading Igbo politicians and intellectuals including Kalu Uzor Kalu and Obiageli Ezekwesili sold the idea of ‘citizenship’ as answer ...

In 1995, the conflict between art and politics took a deadly turn when Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha killed writer Ken Saro-Wiwa.In a case of “art mimicking real life”, Saro-Wiwa’s life mirrored that ...

Mr. Saro-Wiwa’s people have taken to the forests ... overall mission of rooting out the military from Nigerian politics, rescuing the nation’s wealth from its incontinent hands and terminating ...

In the 1990s, the Nigerian government carried out a horrific crackdown on protesters against pollution caused by oil giant Shell in the Ogoniland region. It culminated in the execution of writer and ...

He stood shoulder to shoulder in defence of Ken Saro-Wiwa in the campaign for Ogoni rights and was a critical part of the broader environmental and human rights movement in Nigeria. Through ...

“We demand action on the unfortunate, painful, and unjust murder of 9 Ogoni by the Federal Government on November 10, 1995, including Ken Saro-Wiwa, as well as an investigation into the ...

Even after the Nigerian government announced the death sentences against Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists, during the summit, Mandela refused to condemn the Abacha regime or countenance the ...