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INterview on Ken Saro-wiwa for jacobin

11/11/2019

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Twenty-four years ago this week, environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian state. His death brought international attention to the rapacious behavior of oil companies like Shell — and their complicity in the most violent forms of repression.

I recently spoke to Roy Doron and Toyin Falola, the authors of a 
2016 biography of Saro-Wiwa, about the activist’s early life, his political and cultural work, and what his legacy can teach us about the unfolding prospects for environmental politics in Africa’s most populous country.

Read the interview in full on the Jacobin website

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