The writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Awo & the Creation of States (2): By Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1987 column probably from the Vanguard). Appears in the collection Nigeria: The Brink of Disaster (Port Harcourt: Saros, 1991), by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Being a southerner, but not equal to th Yoruba or Igbos. The cataclysmic events of 1966: an attempt to kidnap the Ogoni, among others, into the Igbo empire called biafra. The economic viability of biafra rested on the oil of the Ogoni and the Ijaw.
Ethnicity and National Development: By Ken Saro-Wiwa. Alumni Lecture at University of Ibadan, June 1989. Appears in the collection Nigeria: The Brink of Disaster (Port Harcourt: Saros, 1991), by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Nigeria got into its present pass because it failed to develop a strong political structure in keeping with its traditional multi-ethic set-up.
The World Bank and Us: By Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sunday Times (Lagos), 1989-1990, reprinted in Similia: Essays on Anomic Nigeria (Port Harcourt: Saros, 1991), by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Variations on his name. Indian High Commissioner's party. Meets an IMF representative; his awareness of the distress caused by structural adjustment.
Excerpts from Saro-Wiwa on Shell in Ogoni: 30 November 1995.
Ken Saro-Wiwa's Final Statement to Military Tribunal: 13 November 1995.