Birth Name:

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Oct 10, 1941

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Delta, Delta, Nigeria

Age:

82

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

16°

Lib

45'

About Ken Saro-Wiwa

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

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• "Standing Before History: Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa" at PEN World Voices, sponsored by Guernica Magazine in New York City on 2 May 2009.

• "The perils of activism: Ken Saro-Wiwa" by Anthony Daniels

• Letter of protest published in the New York Review of Books shortly before Saro-Wiwa's execution.

• Ken Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa, writes a letter on openDemocracy.net about the campaign to seek justice for his father in a lawsuit against Shell – "America in Africa: plunderer or part"

• The Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation

• Remember Saro-Wiwa campaign

• PEN Centres honour Saro-Wiwa's memory – IFEX

• The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) 1995 Ogoni report

• Right Livelihood Award recipient

• The Politics of Bones, by J. Timothy Hunt

• Wiwa v. Shell trial information

• Ken Saro-Wiwa at Maynooth University

• Ken Saro-Wiwa at the Digital Repository of Ireland

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Ken Saro-Wiwa: Sun 16 Libra, Moon 12 Gemini, Mercury 10 Scorpio, Venus 29 Scorpio, Mars 16 Aries, Jupiter 21 Gemini, Saturn 27 Taurus, Uranus 29 Taurus, Neptune 28 Virgo, Pluto 5 Leo, Sun Opposition Mars, Sun Trine Jupiter, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Mercury Semi Square Neptune, Venus Sesquiquadrate Mars, Venus Opposition Saturn, Venus Opposition Uranus, Venus Sextile Neptune, Mars Semi Square Uranus, Jupiter Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Conjunct Uranus, Saturn Trine Neptune, Uranus Trine Neptune

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