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Ken Saro-Wiwa: Goldman Environmental Prize, Ogoni people, Niger Delta, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Nonviolence, Royal Dutch ... Sani Abacha, Commonwealth of Nations - Softcover
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic Nigerian minority whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme and unremediated environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate oil waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and natural waters of Ogoniland by the operations of multinational oil companies, especially Shell. He was also an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government, which he viewed as reluctant to enforce proper environmental regulations on the foreign oil companies operating in the area.
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- PublisherAlphascript Publishing
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 6130246242
- ISBN 13 9786130246242
- BindingBroché
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages72
- EditorMiller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John
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