Short biography of ken saro-wiwa quotes

Ken Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian Writer, and a human rights activist whose burden to liberate his people led to his execution on November 10, 1995.

Born on 10 October 1941, Ken Saro Wiwa was the winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize for his environmental activism.

Some of his popular writings include:

• Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985)
• On a Darkling Plain: An Account of the Nigerian Civil War (1989)
• Prisoners of Jebs (1989)
• Pita Dumbrok’s Prison (1991)
• A Month and a Day (1995)

As he narrated in his detention dairy, A Month and a Day (1995), his most potent weapon against political tyranny was his spoken words, according to him  “the word is power and more powerful is it when expressed in common currency”

Although many writers believed some of his actions were extreme; like comparing the Nigerian government treatment of the Ogoni people with Britain, Ken’s message of environmental degradation of Multi-National Com