Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni spirit
Audio 48:30
Demonstration, November 10, 2005 in tribute to Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed in 1995, by the regime of President General Sani Abacha, in Port Harcourt (Nigeria).
AP - Sunday Alamba
By: Valérie Nivelon
50 mins
Ken Saro Wiwa became involved in the 1970s alongside his minority people in Nigeria, the Ogoni.
For the defense of its culture, against the exploitation of its oil by Shell.
But neither Mandela nor Soyinka will succeed in bending the dictatorship of Sani Abacha.
Ken Saro-Wiwa will be hanged on November 10, 1995, with his companions, the group of Ogoni 9. A documentary proposed by Moïse Gomis, to meet those who accompanied Ken Saro-Wiwa's struggle.
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An investigation carried out in Nigeria, from Abuja, the federal capital to Port Harcourt and the Ogoni lands, but also in Lagos, to meet the Nobel Prize for Literature Wole Soyinka.
The great writer tells the story of his last attempts to save Ken Saro-Wiwa, the founder of Mosop, the movement for the survival of the Ogoni people.
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