10 years since the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa
By Cathy Nugent In November 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, the best known leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, was executed by the Nigerian government. The Ogoni are an ethnic minority of 500,000 who live in about 350 square miles in the impoverished Niger river delta region of Nigeria. Saro-Wiwa, a novelist and TV producer, was killed, along with eight other Ogoni activists, because they seriously challenged Nigeria’s status quo — they wanted to stop the oil companies, in collusion with the government, destroying the environment and lives of the Niger delta people. Over forty...