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Ken Saro-Wiwa
January 4, 2021
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Chude Jideonwo: Why DJ Switch is the Culture Icon of 2020

I cannot forget that evening in October when a dear friend rushed into the room to show me the video of DJ Switch (Obianuju Catherine Udeh) who had turned on her phone camera to broadcast live – as she and others worked to remove a bullet from the leg of a man who had been... Read More
For The Culture, Specials
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July 3, 2018
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#YNaijaEssays: Grief and tragedy are a constant in Nigeria, but how does it change us as people?

The past week was both unpleasant and horribly depressing for Nigerians. On Saturday the 23rd of May, 86 indigenes of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area according to police reports – a figure disputed by Plateau Governor, Simon Lalong, community leaders and the Christian Association of Nigeria, who put the death toll at over 200 –... Read More
Featured, Thinking Through
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November 18, 2017
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[The Injustice Blog] Ken Saro-Wiwa, House of Representatives and its lack of moral courage

Nigeria’s National Assembly has been on the receiving end of accusations of incompetence over the years thanks to the many internal and external scandals that members of the assembly have either been embroiled in or implicated in. While many Nigerians have called for the scrapping of one of the chambers especially the house of Representatives... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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Saro-Wiwa
November 17, 2017
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[The Injustice Blog] 22 years after the killing of Ken Saro Wiwa, a sad reflection on the state of Niger-delta

November 10, 1995 the Military junta under the leadership of the late dictator General Sani Abacha executed the late Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) after hurried trial by a panel condemned by the vast majority of human rights organizations in the world. These individuals... Read More
Counter Culture Blog
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November 2, 2016
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BLOOD MONEY XV : The River is a Desert

Last month, YNaija.com launched its Monthly Citizenship Dispatches, which explores in detail, the lives and realities of Nigerian citizens across the country. This month, the dispatches come from the Niger Delta, where our reporters have spent weeks digging deep into a part of the country oft reported about and sadly still mis-understood. These are the... Read More
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October 21, 2016
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The YNaija Tracklist: Power sector debts hit N809bn | How robbers killed Mimiko’s CSO | PDP congratulates new Oba of Benin |

From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. I used 15 years to save frozen $15m – Patience Jonathan – YNaija “It’s a plot to destroy me politically”, Amaechi replies Justice Ngwuta – YNaija How robbers killed Mimiko’s CSO – YNaija PDP congratulates new Oba of Benin – YNaija You played a major role in Ken... Read More
Featured, The News Blog
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October 20, 2016
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You played a major role in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death, Avengers tell Buhari

Militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) says President Muhammadu Buhari should quit celebrating the Ogoni clean-up programme as he played a major role in the problem facing the community. In a letter issued on Thursday by the group, it said Buhari’s hands were soiled with the blood of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa; a freedom... Read More
The News Blog
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October 20, 2016
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The Film Blog: We want to remember Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr for ‘Nowhere to run’

A number of people have tweeted tributes to the amazing Ken Saro-Wiwa, who no one has a nasty word to say about. There is nothing more to add, really. Except this. Just before he passed, his last gift to the world was his part in the excellent documentary, Nowhere to run. The documentary focuses on... Read More
Featured, The Film Blog
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October 19, 2016
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#ForTheRecord: My father may not have died in vain | Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr on justice for the people of Ogoni

by Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr. Twenty years ago today my father and eight other Ogoni men were woken from their sleep and hanged in a prison yard in southern Nigeria. When the news filtered out, shock and outrage reverberated around the world, and everyone from the Queen to Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela condemned the executions. What... Read More
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August 27, 2016
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Dele Momodu: Another homecoming to Nairobi Kenya

Fellow Africans, to say I love Africa is an understatement. It baffles me how most Africans hardly know Africa outside their individual domain. The owners of Africa hardly appreciate the beauty of their own continent. The knowledge of Africa is usually from other people’s narrative and perspectives. The best library collections about Africa belong elsewhere... Read More
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July 7, 2016
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Police brutality: Like America, like Nigeria

by Joachim MacEbong Thanks once again to social media, the world has had yet another opportunity to see the brutality of America’s police force against black males. This morning, it was Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. Yesterday, it was Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They are just the latest of hundreds killed this year... Read More
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Buhari returns home
June 7, 2016
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Opinion: Nigerians want to see the real change

by Ray Ekpu Before July 23, 2014, Muhammadu Buhari thought the Boko Haram insurgents were a bunch of near-harmless agitators calling for the killing of Western education in Northern Nigeria. He reportedly asked that the terrorists be wooed into an amnesty programme so that they would surrender their arms and amulets and make room for... Read More
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February 29, 2016
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How Abacha betrayed Nelson Mandela

Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, who served as president after Nelson Mandela, has recounted how former Nigerian Head of State and Dictator, General Sani Abacha, betrayed him, his country and Mandela. Mbeki, while recalling the role South Africa played in international events and in ensuring global human rights, stated that “we opposed the pernicious... Read More
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June 13, 2013
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Okechukwu Ofili: Nigeria – Our history of forgetting history

by Ikechukwu Ofili Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter – Chinua Achebe The first time I heard about Biafra was while reading the Steve Jobs autobiography by Walter Isaacson. The second time I heard about it was while watching the Nigerian version of the Rick... Read More
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May 27, 2013
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Opinion: Ogonis are the most exploited people on earth

by Saatah Nubari The Ogoni ethnic nationality have contributed approximately 30 billion dollars… All they can boast of is the murder of their son Ken Saro Wiwa by the Abacha regime and the devastation of their rivers and farm lands. Home to the late environmental right activist, Ken Saro Wiwa, with a population of approximately 1,000,000... Read More
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January 26, 2013
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Dele Momodu: Special tribute to our freedom fighters

by Dele Momodu  From one crisis to another, we trudged on and foolishly imagined that each one brought us closer to our destination and liberation. Little did we envisage that the end was nowhere in sight and that in reality we were going to sink deeper and deeper into the mire. Fellow Nigerians, as I... Read More
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December 30, 2012
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“They should be shown no sympathy” – Memo of Abacha approving execution of Saro-Wiwa [DETAILS]

by Isi Esene The death of writer and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and others who were killed in 1995 under the military regime of General Sani Abacha has continued to arouse interest. Observers and historians have wonders what exactly informed the killing despite the outcry from the international community against execution. A new document might... Read More
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November 17, 2012
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Ken Wiwa reviews Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’

by Ken Wiwa “…I had to be careful about the way I handled someone else’s words or opinions… Even when there was strong disagreement, one had to remember to be discordant with respect.” Early in this long-awaited memoir of the Nigerian Civil War, Chinua Achebe, Nigeria’s most famous and respected writer, recalls a conversation between... Read More
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