By:
CEESA - Maynooth University
Nigerian writer, environmental activist and indigenous rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in 1995, together with 8 other activists, by the then military regime on behalf of the multinational oil companies. Saro-Wiwa's memory has been very important in Irish struggles, as the memorial to the "Ogoni Nine" at Bellanaboy, Co. Mayo testifies.
Saro-Wiwa's last letters, to Irish solidarity activist Sr Majella McCarron, were recently donated to NUI Maynooth and published in 2013 as Silence would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa (see reviews on OpenDemocracy and Red Pepper).
The letters themselves are now available online via the Digital Repository of Ireland (search for "Saro-Wiwa"). There is also an audio archive, including interviews with Ken's brother Owens Wiwa and Sr Majella, available online here.
Posted Date:
16 October 2015