Ken Saro-Wiwa Quotes

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I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I was not able to do it as a politician or a businessman. My writing did it…I think I have the moral victory.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society's weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or she must be actively involved shaping its present and its future.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Lord take my soul, but the struggle continues.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

And I was thinking how I was prouding before to go to soza and call myself Sozaboy. But now if anybody say anything about war or even fight, I will just run and run and run and run and run. Believe me yours sincerely.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

I saw the people who were singing. Young young boys like myself, all of them with gun and uniform It is that uniform that I like very much. When I see how they are all marching, prouding and singing, I am very happy. But when I see all their uniform shining and very very nice to see, I cannot tell you how I am feeling. Immediately I know that this soza is wonderful thing.

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

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)

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