Stephen Kekeghe’s poetry collection, Rumbling Sky, could not have come at a better time than now. Few months ago, Nigerians woke up to a volcanic outburst of a long simmering rage of the youth against the nation’s leadership. While the…
Soldiers poured acid on Saro-Wiwa after execution –Eyewitness (Punch)
An eyewitness, Ibrahim Abdullahi, who was a prisoner when the environmental rights activist, the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed in 1995 by the late General Sani Abacha government, on Thursday, gave his account of how the late Ogoni leader and…
Ken Saro-Wiwa and the journalist who offended him – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
A freelance writer in Nigeria is a writer who writes for free. Ken Saro-Wiwa said this to me many moons before his sordid hanging. There is no escaping the fact that Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, packed…
Winner in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Review to be announced on Friday at LABAF 2018
The winner in the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prize for Book Review, will be announced on Friday, November 9 at the ongoing 20th Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which ends on November 11 at Freedom Park, Lagos. The annual competition designed…
Ogoni clean-up to commence in October —FG (Vanguard)
The Federal Government said that the clean-up of Ogoni impacted communities would commence fully in October, this year. Minister of Environment, Ibrahim Jibril disclosed this in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, at a pre-contract awarding meeting organised by Hydrocarbon Pollution…
Arojah Royal Theatre brings Ken Saro Wiwa’s political satire, ‘The Wheel’ to Abuja audience
Those who missed the chance to see Arojah Royal Theatre’s production of The Wheel by Ken Saro Wiwa in January and March have the opportunity as the Abuja-based company brings it back on Sunday, September 9 and 16, 2018. Written…