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

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995)

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and social rights activist. A member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in the Niger Delta whose homeland, Ogoniland, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered…