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Ken Saro-Wiwa  

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  • Noted Nigerian novelist and television producer Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa was catapulted to international notoriety as a founder of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), imprisoned in 1994 by Nigerian military dictator Sani Abacha. Born in the southern Nigerian coastal town of Bori, Saro-Wiwa taught at Government College and at the University of Lagos before becoming the civilian administrator for the port of Bonny in the Niger Delta. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Saro-Wiwa, Ken (1941–1995)]

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