Ken Saro Wiwa S Shadow Expanded Edition

Author : Sanya Osha
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781527564022

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Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Shadow (Expanded Edition) by Sanya Osha Pdf

The Ogoni crisis, which reached its peak in Nigeria in the 1990s, divided all the major stakeholders (namely, the Nigerian state, the multinational petroleum concerns, the Ogoni community, and the rest of the Nigerian populace) in the conflict. There were also undoubtedly other important ramifications within the Ogoni community, such as divisions along the lines of those who were pro-government and those who upheld an opposing stance. These divisions run deep and define the more subtle contours of the conflict amongst the Ogoni people who were once led by their indomitable leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa, until he was hanged by the General Sani Abacha regime in 1995. Ken Saro-Wiwa’s struggle exemplified certain core values and tenets, including democracy, minority rights, environmental awareness, non-violence and respect for human dignity. However, as he lived and worked in an antithetical political context governed by veniality, despotism and philistinism he was brutally cut down. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the Ogoni crisis and its unfolding aftermath.

Author : Noo Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781593764913

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Looking for Transwonderland by Noo Saro-Wiwa Pdf

A “remarkable chronicle” of a journey back to this West African nation after years of exile (The New York Times Book Review). Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria—a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was killed there, she didn’t return for several years. Then she decided to come to terms with the country her father given his life for. Traveling from the exuberant chaos of Lagos to the calm beauty of the eastern mountains; from the eccentricity of a Nigerian dog show to the decrepit kitsch of the Transwonderland Amusement Park, she explores Nigerian Christianity, delves into the country’s history of slavery, examines the corrupting effect of oil, and ponders the huge success of Nollywood. She finds the country as exasperating as ever, and frequently despairs at the corruption and inefficiency she encounters. But she also discovers that it is far more beautiful and varied than she had ever imagined, with its captivating thick tropical rain forest and ancient palaces and monuments—and most engagingly and entertainingly, its unforgettable people. “The author allows her love-hate relationship with Nigeria to flavor this thoughtful travel journal, lending it irony, wit and frankness.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Joseph Godlewski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003854951

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The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra by Joseph Godlewski Pdf

The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities, adding an important sub‐Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity. Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with mangrove swamps, the Bight of Biafra has a long history of decentralized political arrangements and intricate trading networks predating the emergence of the Atlantic world. While indigenous merchants in the region were active participants in the transatlantic slave trading system, they creatively resisted European settlement and maintained indigenous sovereignty until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since few built artifacts still exist, this study draws from a close reading of written sources—travelers’ accounts, slave traders’ diaries, missionary memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories—as well as contemporary fieldwork to trace transformations in the region’s built environment from the sixteenth century to today. With each chapter focusing on a particular spatial paradigm in this dynamic process, this book uncovers the manifold and inventive ways in which actors strategically adapted the built environment to adjust to changing cultural and economic circumstances. In parallel, it highlights the ways that these spaces were rhetorically constructed and exploited by foreign observers and local agents. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern construction of race, the spatial dynamics of the Biafran region have not been geographically delimited. The central thesis of this volume is that these spaces of entanglement have been productive sites of Black identity formation involving competing and overlapping interests, occupying multiple positions and temporalities, and ensnaring real, imagined, and sometimes contradictory aims. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural history, urban geography, African studies, and Atlantic studies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000025834505

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Update on U.S. Policy Toward Nigeria by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs Pdf

Author : Nnimmo Bassey
Publisher : Fahamu/Pambazuka
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781906387532

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To Cook a Continent by Nnimmo Bassey Pdf

Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Blacks
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112953125

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Pace by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ken Wiwa
Publisher : Random House
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407095011

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In The Shadow Of A Saint by Ken Wiwa Pdf

'My father. That's what this is all about. Where does he end and where do I begin?' Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in November 1995. One of Nigeria's best-loved writers and an outspoken critic of military rule, he was a prime mover in bringing the human rights abuses of Shell Oil and the Nigerian military to the attention of the world. His death was headline news internationally. The name of Ken Saro-Wiwa became a potent symbol of the struggle between a traditional way of life and the juggernaut of global commercial interests. What was it like to grow up with such a politically active and socially conscious father? How do you come to terms with your father's imprisonment and execution? How do you cope with the endless international press speculation about your father's life and character? And how do you respond when international attention is focused on you? How do you make your own way in life against your father's expectations of you, especially when you carry the same name? How do you live with such a complex personal history? This frank and memorable depiction of Ken Saro-Wiwa's childhood and relationship with his father vividly recounts the journey he took to answer those questions. Ultimately it is the story of how Ken Wiwa went looking for his father and ended up finding himself.

Author : KEN. SARO-WIWA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1035900440

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SOZABOY. by KEN. SARO-WIWA Pdf

Author : Jennifer Wenzel
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823286799

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The Disposition of Nature by Jennifer Wenzel Pdf

Finalist, 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Shortlisted, 2020 Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming. The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia, and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet, Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale. Impressive in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel’s book fuses insights from political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize movements for justice and livable futures.

Author : Ike Okonta,Oronto Douglas
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781789609059

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Where Vultures Feast by Ike Okonta,Oronto Douglas Pdf

On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack. A hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa-writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments and the giant multinational Royal Dutch Shell. Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against the world's largest oil company, demonstrating how (in contrast to Shell's public profile) irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a people destitute. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full circle as crude oil has taken the place of palm oil, but the dramatis personae remain the same: a powerful multinational company bent on extracting the last drop of blood from the richly endowed Niger Delta, and a courageous people determined to resist.

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199765096

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The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950 by Simon Gikandi Pdf

Explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon.

Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Saros International Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : African fiction (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015037058966

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Prisoners of Jebs by Ken Saro-Wiwa Pdf

Author : Mats R. Berdal,David Malone,International Peace Academy
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555878687

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Greed & Grievance by Mats R. Berdal,David Malone,International Peace Academy Pdf

This volume identifies the economic and social factors underlying the perpetuation of civil wars, exploring as well the economic incentives and disencentives available to international actors seeking to restore peace to war-torn societies. The authors consider the economic rationality of conflict for beligerents, the economic strategies that elites use to sustain their positions, and in what situations elites find war to be more profitable than peace.

Author : Ken Saro-Wiwa
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Authors, Nigerian
ISBN : UCSC:32106014289943

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A Month and a Day by Ken Saro-Wiwa Pdf

The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.

Author : James Sheptycki,Ali Wardak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135311452

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Transnational and Comparative Criminology by James Sheptycki,Ali Wardak Pdf

This book examines the issues of crime and its control in the twenty-first century - an era of human history where people live in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world - providing invaluable and first-hand readings for undergraduate and postgradate students.