In the history of public life, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ken Saro-Wiwa as Nigerian social rights activist (1941–1995).
Ken Saro-Wiwa was born at Bori in 1941. His recorded nationality is Nigeria. He was educated at University of Ibadan and Government College Umuahia.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as writer, poet and screenwriter.
His affiliations include University of Lagos.
Among his principal works are Basi and Company and A Bride For Mr B. Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
His recorded fields of work are environmentalist, writer and poet.
His work was formally recognised with the Bruno Kreisky Award for Services to Human Rights, Goldman Environmental Prize and Right Livelihood Award.
That the work was done from Nigeria matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Ken Saro-Wiwa died in 1995 at the age of 54. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Basi and Company
- Notable work: A Bride For Mr B
- Affiliated with University of Lagos
- Educated at University of Ibadan and Government College Umuahia
- Worked as writer, poet and screenwriter
