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A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary

Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Region

West Africa

Nigeria

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Memoir

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Saro-Wiwa's account of his detention by the Nigerian military government and his campaign for Ogoni rights against Shell's environmental destruction in the Niger Delta.

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Documents the struggle of the Ogoni people; Saro-Wiwa was executed by hanging in 1995 while this book was in print

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Saro-Wiwa's account of his detention by the Nigerian military government and his campaign for Ogoni rights against Shell's environmental destruction in the Niger Delta. Documents the struggle of the Ogoni people; Saro-Wiwa was executed by hanging in 1995 while this book was in print

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