Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Born: October 10, 1941
Died: November 10, 1995 (aged 54)
Bio: Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
Known for:
- Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English (1985)
- Genocide in Nigeria (1992)
- A month and a day
- A forest of flowers (1986)
- Basi and company (1987)