Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and activist (died 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 extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.