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A Month and A Day & Letters
Ken Saro-Wiwa
(Foreword by the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka)
ISBN: 095470235-2
Extent: 240 pages
Published by Ayebia
Synopsis
A Month and A Day & Letters includes an edited version of 'A Detention Diary' – Saro-Wiwa's own record of his arrest in July 1993, and the story of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) and the struggle against the multinational Shell and the Nigerian military dictatorship. Saro-Wiwa's criticisms and questioning of a corrupt regime eventually led to his execution with eight others on 10 November 1995.
This new edition has a Foreword by the Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. It also includes a letter by Ken Wiwa to his late father 10 years on, and previously unpublished letters smuggled to and from Ken during his final imprisonment. Among these are letters from world leaders, writers and friends including Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, Ethel Kennedy, Anita Roddick and ordinary people from all over the world.
Reviews
This book gives an insight into Ken Saro-Wiwa's ideology, his ultimate sacrifice for the Ogoni people and for all oppressed people, for a world that is sustainable, just and humane. Crucially, it highlights the central role that oil companies play in our daily lives. If you want to know why Ken Saro-Wiwa was killed, read his book.
About the Author
'Many people still remember how they felt when Ken Saro-Wiwa was judicially murdered. Some of us have spent the period trying to forget, as a strategy to mask our pain...' Ken Wiwa from a speech at the Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa Commemoration London, 22 March 2005.
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