An edition of Before I Am Hanged (1999)
Before I Am Hanged
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Literature, Politics, and Dissent
By Onookome Okome
Publish Date
August 1999
Publisher
Africa World Press
Language
eng
Pages
224
Description:
"This is a full-length study of Kenule Saro-Wiwa, the Ogoni Minority and Human Rights activist who was judicially murdered on November 10, 1995. One remarkable feature of the essays selected for this volume is the intensity of each contributor's voice to the very controversial man whose judicial murder has come to signify the extent of misrule in Nigeria.". "Questions of nationhood, ethnic minority and power politics in Nigeria are discussed as each contributor examines the corpus of his literary and political ideas, pointing out the direction of his thought and the enduring contribution this writer and social critics have left behind on Nigeria's literary and political arenas."--BOOK JACKET.