The Commonwealth has developed a 21st-century role – as a haven for serial human rights abusers What's the point of the Commonwealth? Every two years the question comes around in the run-up to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting . Then everyone goes home and forgets about it until the next one. Starved of cash and political attention, the Commonwealth becomes ever more marginal. Even...
Sani Abacha stadium in Kano, Nigeria was one of the venues of the U-17 World Cup. Why would you name a stadium after a military dictator notorious for the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni activists...
Two human right groups staged a peaceful protest rally yesterday in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni people who were killed on November 10, 1995. The members of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and the United Action for Democracy protested in front of the Shell headquarters in Marina, Lagos.
Two human right groups staged a peaceful protest rally yesterday in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni people who were killed on November 10, 1995. The members of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum and the United Action for Democracy protested in front of the Shell headquarters in Marina, Lagos.The groups accused Shell of degrading the Niger Delta environment, and conniving with the military...
Campaigners from Mayo and Dublin will be holding a demo to mark the anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 of his comrades in 1995 today outside Shell HQ from 11am on.
We, the Ogoni Students in diaspora under the auspices of the National Union of Ogoni Students, USA, today 11/10/2009 commemorate with the rest of the world the judicial murder of 9 Ogoni leaders (Ken Saro Wiwa, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, John Kpuinen, Saturday Doobee, Nordu Eawo, Paul Levura, Felix Nuateh, Baribo Beera, and Daniel Gboko).
The Stockholm Bloodbath came to an end in 1520. As near as I can tell, around 215 people were killed over a four-day period by Danish King Christian II's men. René Descartes apparently had some dreams in 1619 that lead him to write Meditations on First Philosophy . In 1969, American children were introduced to a happy world where people of all ethnicities lived in peaceful harmony with monsters...
A group of Ogoni indigenes have called on the Federal Government to prosecute all members of the late Sani Abacha junta that constituted the Provisional Ruling Council, which ratified the killing of the Ogoni nine, and also quash the conviction of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the late Ogoni activist.
Chidi Opara remembers Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian writer, environmental and minority rights activist who was executed on 10th November, 1995 by the then military rulers of Nigeria
The Diary Of Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
In reaction to your cover story of the October 5, 2009 edition of the Time Magazine titled 'Heroes of the Environment’, it is very ironical that you allowed the Royal Dutch Shell to take a half centre-spread advert in pages 70 and 71 of the issue. It is very ludicrous bearing in mind the fact that Shell is one of the greatest defaulters when it comes to environmental protection and the salvation...
Toni Kan has won the NDDC Ken Saro-Wiwa prize for his collection Nights of the Creaking Bed . The prize was awarded at the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) awards gala night on Saturday 31st October. The book was published in 2008 by Cassava Republic Press. On winning the award, Toni had this to say, "The ANA awards is the most credible and widely respected literary awards in Nigeria today....
INVITATION KEN SARO WIWA MEMORIAL DINNER 10 November 2009 FEATURING A PERFORMANCE OF ‘PROGRES’ Written by Michael Wentworth Directed by Michael Wentworth and Tauriq Jenkins Performed by the Independent Theatre Movement of South Africa Dear Comrade In commemoration of the 14th Anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa, the Ogoni Solidarity Forum is proud to invite you to a Ken Saro Wiwa...
Nneka - Kangpe by FourMusic From Nneka’s MySpace Page : Before and since the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995 (In 1990, Saro-Wiwa started to dedicate himself to the amelioration of the problems of the oil producing regions of the Niger Delta. Focusing on his homeland, Ogoni, he launched a non-violent movement for social and ecological justice. In this role he attacked the oil companies...
"From Henry Kissinger to Yasir Arafat, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has made some controversial picks over the years. Here are seven people who that never won the prize, but should have. MAHATMA GANDHI, ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, VACLAV HAVEL, KEN SARO-WIWA, SARI NUSSEIBEH, CORAZON AQUINO, LIU XIAOBO" http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/07/nobel_peace_prize_also_rans'page=full
This award never went to two of the most critical peacemakers of the 20th Century: Mahatma Gandhi, who pioneered the successful use of mass non-violence; and Eleanor Roosevelt, feminist godmother of the New Deal's social programs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It has not gone to Cesar Chavez, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Thich Nhat Hanh, Paul XIII and so many more. But yes it did to Barack Obama....
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