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Nigerian environmental activist (1941–1995)

This article is about the Nigerian environmental activist. For his son Ken Tsaro-Wiwa, see Ken Wiwa.

Kenule BeesonSaro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995)^[1] was a Nigerian writer, teacher, television producer, and environmental activist.^[2] Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland,^[3] in the Niger Delta, has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.^[4]

Initially as a spokesperson, and then as the president, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multiple international oil companies, especially the Royal Dutch Shell company.^[5] He criticiz