A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary

Type

Book

Authors

Ken Saro-Wiwa

ISBN 10

0140259147

ISBN 13

9780140259148

Tags

Ethnic & National, Africa, Memoirs, Nigeria

Description

This is the extraordinary and moving account of Ken Saro-Wiwa's period of detention in 1993, and is also a personal history of the man who gave voice to the campaign for basic human and political rights for the Ogoni people. It was fear of his success that made Saro-Wiwa the target of the despotic Nigerian military regime. Arrested on 21 June 1993, ostensibly for his part in election-day disturbances, he describes in harrowing detail the conditions under which he was held. He writes of his involvement with the Ogoni cause and his instrumental role in the setting up of the movement for the survival of the Ogoni people. - from Amzon

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