Download or read book Ken Saro Wiwa 1941 1995 written by Amayanabo Opubo Daminabo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ken Saro Wiwa and MOSOP written by Ben Wuloo Ikari and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a revelation. The book of revelation, if you like. It deals crucially with the life of one of the most dignified I have ever known. The man who saved Nigeria from disintegration in 1967, but was unfortunately murdered in cold-blood by Shell and the Nigeria government on November 10, 1995. Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)was an honest negotiator who did not loss a fight but could yield if genuine dialogue was put in place for mutual and bilateral agreement. He was a man of peace, of ideas; one of the bravest man on earth. Readers the world over, Ogonis and those who played the different roles in the hanging of Ken, would see my Hero resurface. And, this is because he lives. Shell and the Federal Government had lured, paid, and made promises to some Ogonis who were counseled in a mock court(before his arraignment at the Justice-injustice-Ibrahim Auta ́s Military tribunal) to testify falsely in oral and written forms against Saro-Wiwa and 8 others. They did this so that, having been killed for no crime but the consciousness he gave his suffering people, the Ogoni oil wealth and natural gas would be extracted unhindered and Niger Delta would learn a bitter lesson from it and would not venture to speak against the nonchalant attitudes and injustices meted by Shell Oil and the Nigerian Government. However, they misfired. Though the messenger was taken away by Corporate and State Murder, the message lives on, therefore Ken Saro-Wiwa lives. Ken Saro-Wiwa And Mosop-The Story and Revelation allows everyone, particularly minorities/students (scholars/environmentalists) all over the world to learn more of the life of this great man, who lived most of his life struggling to save his people and the environment; the Niger River Delta, the oppressed of Nigeria, Africa, and the larger world. How he nonviolently confronted the tormentors of the marginalized and oppressed because he saw the need to do so. He did it as a duty and paid the supreme price for his actions. This brings to mind the reality of ALTRUISM. He was indeed a selfless and committed man, an altruist. Ken Saro-Wiwa and MOSOP also serves as sending a strong message to the insensitive government of Nigeria, the United States Government, whose interest the Ogoni oil and gas reserves (oil for which Ken and 8 others were murdered) mostly serves to change their methods of dealing with the Ogoni people and issues; do oil business with greater consideration for the masses as against putting oil first. Treat Ogoni citizens with respect, dignity, and consideration; as human beings and not inanimates. The book as well brings the British/Netherland Governments(home countries of Shell)and their baby crook/rogue company, Shell, to the world ́s satellite. For these governments have failed woefully to bring peace to Ogoni and the Niger Delta. Yet, the Britons, especially had brought Shell to Nigeria as their economic vehicle in the mid-50s succeeding their reign as the invaders, looters, and killers of Africa for the expansion of their empire-the colonial era. As the book says, Shell Must compensate Ogoni for her miseries that stem from unimaginable exploitation, the devastation of the environment (that ́s man ́s first right), and the death of over 4 thousand innocent citizens killed during the crisis the company planned and executed, using the Nigerian State and Particularly the military led by Colonel Paul Okontimo (rtd), Major Obi Umai, and others. The company must clean the environmental mess in Ogoni, caused by its reckless exploitation. The then Rivers State Internal Security Taskforce ethnically cleanse Ogoni (committed genocide) on the orders of Shell, because Ogoni under Ken Saro-Wiwa took their destiny into their hands. Having given the company and government ultimatum to meet the Ogoni demand which has a state as minimum, that was presented to the Federal Government in 1990, and they refused to response to. Shell was declared persona non
Download or read book Silence Would be Treason written by Íde Corely and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death, evoking such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic government. It was his leadership that forced Shell out of Ogoni in 1993.
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.
Download or read book Ken Saro Wiwa written by Amanyanabo O. Daminabo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
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
Download or read book A Month and a Day Letters written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Ayebia Clarke Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited version of A Detention Diary - Ken Saro-Wiwa's own record of his arrest and imprisonment in July 1993, and the history of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. This new edition has a foreword by the Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. The book highlights Saro- Wiwa's ideology, his cause, his ultimate sacrifice and the injustice of his death. It also focuses on the Ogoni struggle against the multinational Shell and the Nigerian dictatorship. His story illustrates the consequences of living in a world powered by fossil fuels.
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.
Download or read book Sozaboy written by Ken Saro-Wiwa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory that the ex-soldier in his village brags about, with his stories of hunting 'Hitla'. So when war breaks out and soldiers appear in Mene's isolated village, he sees his chance to finally wear a uniform. Too soon, however, Mene's innocence turns to terror. While witnessing the unfathomable, Mene must learn to evade the carnage of warfare if he wants to make it home alive... Writing in Nigerian Pidgin English, Ken Saro-Wiwa creates a unique window into the dark consequences of meaningless war. 'Haunting.' Guardian 'Sozaboy is not simply a great African novel, it is also a great anti-war novel, among the very best the twentieth century has produced.' William Boyd
Download or read book Black African Literature in English 1997 1999 written by Bernth Lindfors and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999. This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.
Download or read book SOZABOY written by KEN. SARO-WIWA and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry written by R. Victoria Arana and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
Download or read book The Changing Forms of Identity Politics in Nigeria Under Economic Adjustment written by Cyril I. Obi and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Niger delta region of Nigeria which is at the heart of the country's oil industry, has a long history of struggles for self-determination dating back to the early years of the 20[superscript th] century. In the 1980s and 1990s, these struggles, unfolding as they did within the context of military authoritarianism and structural adjustment, took the form of widespread agitation for greater control by local communities of the revenues accruing to the Nigerian state from exploration and extraction of oil." "This study attempts to capture the transformations in ethnic minority identity politics in the oil-producing areas of the Niger delta. In doing this, attention is simultaneously drawn to the factors informing the shift from peaceful agitation to violent protest as well as the dynamic of decay and renewal in the various ethnic minority movements that are active in the delta. It is suggested that part of the solution to the crisis in the delta will involve not only a thorough-going restructuring of the Nigerian state but also the re-orientation of the mode of operation of the giant oil multinationals in order to make them both more sensitive and accountable to the local communities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Thing Around Your Neck written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve dazzling stories from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — the Orange Broadband Prize–winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun — are her most intimate works to date. In these stories Adichie turns her penetrating eye to the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the United States. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman, and the young mother at the centre of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Adichie’s prodigious literary powers.
