A good man in Africa: the Nigerian dictatorship is fighting back against the weapon it fears more than anger.

From: National Review | Date: July 10, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa has been arrested by the corrupt Nigerian government and accused of inciting a murder. Saro-Wiwa is a peaceable man who has the capacity to laugh at the government, and he is thus considered a great threat.

THE last time I visited the Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, in his office on the Aggrey Road in Port Harcourt, there was a naked body, bloated with decomposition, lying in the gutter about a hundred yards down the road. An announcer on the local radio station appealed for its owner, whoever he might be, to come and take it away. Whatever Nigeria's ...

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