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Ken Saro-Wiwa / Roy Doron and Toyin Falola.
- Title
- Ken Saro-Wiwa / Roy Doron and Toyin Falola.
- Author
- Doron, Roy
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9387.9.S27 Z64 2016 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Falola, Toyin
- Description
- 176 pages; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Ohio short histories of Africa
- Uniform Title
- Ohio short histories of Africa.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Nigeria and Saro-Wiwa's world in 1960 -- Saro-Wiwa's childlhood and education -- The Nigerian Civil War years -- Business, writing, and politics -- Activism and the politics of oil, the environment, and genocide -- MOSOP, the Ogoni Bill of Rights, and Saro-Wiwa's activism -- The trials and death of Saro-Wiwa -- The many legacies of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
- ISBN
- 9780821422014
- 0821422014
- 9780821445501 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016004173
- OCLC
- 932387004
- SCSB-12523757
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library