Finally it seems as if Ken Saro-Wiwa, my father, may not have not died in vain | Ken Wiwa
by Ken Wiwa from on (#T41Z)
Nigeria's Ogoniland still looks as devastated by oil pollution as when the junta executed my father 20 years ago. But the carbon economy seems to be reaching a tipping point at last
Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the news filtered out, shock and outrage reverberated around the world, and everyone from the Queen to Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela condemned the executions.
What I recall of the long days and sleepless nights afterwards was the slogan that caught on with my father's devastated friends and supporters; we were united in a determination to ensure that "his death must not be in vain". So has anything changed?
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