Ken Saro-Wiwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 2382866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Saro-Wiwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Saro-Wiwa |
| SIGNATURE | SARO-WIWA K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silence Would Be Treason
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize, was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of land and waters by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially Royal Dutch Shell. He was an outspoken critic of the Nigeria…
Oil Boom, Oil Doom
English is the Hero
Sozaboy
Sozaboy's language is what I call "rotten English," a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and occasional flashes of good, even idiomatic English. This language is disordered and disorderly. Born of a mediocre education and severely limited opportunities, it borrows words, patterns and images freely from the mother-tongue and finds expressions in a very limited English vocabulary. To its speakers, it has the advantage of having no r…
Songs in a Time of War
Songs in a Time of War
Sozaboy
Sozaboy's language is what I call "rotten English," a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and occasional flashes of good, even idiomatic English. This language is disordered and disorderly. Born of a mediocre education and severely limited opportunities, it borrows words, patterns and images freely from the mother-tongue and finds expressions in a very limited English vocabulary. To its speakers, it has the advantage of having no r…
Oil Boom, Oil Doom
English is the Hero
Silence Would Be Treason
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize, was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of land and waters by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially Royal Dutch Shell. He was an outspoken critic of the Nigeria…
Art (3 works) · Geology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African studies (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Boom (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 work)