Under African Skies (2011)
“Indeed, literature must serve society by steeping itself in politics, by intervention, and writers must not merely write to amuse or to take a bemused, critical look at society. They must play an interventionist role … The writer must be l’homme engagé: the intellectual man of action.” Saro-Wiwa did not realize that these words would be his obituary.
Saro-Wiwa’s execution by Nigerian authorities was swift and brutal, a travesty of human rights and a failure of international diplomacy. Writers r...arely go gentle into that good night, but Saro-Wiwa’s murder will certainly go down in the record as despicable. The inexperienced hangman brought in for the occasion attempted to hang the poor man five times before he succeeded. Saro-Wiwa had spent the previous two years being moved from prison to prison by Nigerian authorities because of his outspoken defense of his people, the Ogonis, and for protesting against the ecological destruction of their homelands by the international oil cartels, most notably Shell Oil.MoreLess
Saro-Wiwa’s execution by Nigerian authorities was swift and brutal, a travesty of human rights and a failure of international diplomacy. Writers r...arely go gentle into that good night, but Saro-Wiwa’s murder will certainly go down in the record as despicable. The inexperienced hangman brought in for the occasion attempted to hang the poor man five times before he succeeded. Saro-Wiwa had spent the previous two years being moved from prison to prison by Nigerian authorities because of his outspoken defense of his people, the Ogonis, and for protesting against the ecological destruction of their homelands by the international oil cartels, most notably Shell Oil.MoreLess
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