TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doron,Roy
AU  - Falola,Toyin
TI  - Ken Saro-Wiwa
T2  - Ohio short histories of Africa
SN  - 9780821445501
AV  - PR9387.9.S27 Z64 2016eb
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Saro-Wiwa, Ken,
KW  - Authors, Nigerian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Nigeria
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Agriculture & Food
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS
KW  - African
KW  - Literary
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
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ER  -