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Photograph by Alan Stanton, 2011, of Sokari Douglas-Camp's 'Bus Memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa' sculpture, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Tottenham · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 (Flickr-reviewed)
Trait Constellation
Key Achievements
Built a successful career as a published novelist and as creator/producer of the popular Nigerian television series Basi and Company before turning to activism.
Genuine, documented achievement in a distinct creative/media career preceding his activism is the basis for the profile's cross_domain_range score. Cross-Domain Range
Founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in 1990 and organized a January 1993 demonstration that mobilized an estimated 300,000 people — a specific, extremely well-documented mass-mobilization outcome.
Moments That Reveal Them
Sustained direct, simultaneous confrontation with both the Nigerian military government and Shell Oil, a powerful multinational corporation, across a documented multi-year campaign.
His documented final words before his 1995 execution affirmed continued commitment to "the struggle."
Turning Points
Continued organizing and leading MOSOP through multiple documented arrests and escalating government pressure, up to and through a widely-regarded-as-politically-motivated trial and his execution.
Multiple independent documented instances of sustained risk across five years is the specific pattern behind the profile's risk_tolerance score. Risk Tolerance
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Sources
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary (1995) — his own account of an earlier detention period
- Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (1985) — his own novel, evidence of sustained literary output before his activism career
- Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) founding documents and the Ogoni Bill of Rights (1990)
- International press and human rights organization coverage (including Amnesty International) of the January 1993 Ogoni demonstration, his 1995 trial, and execution
- Ken Saro-Wiwa