Ken Wiwa also known as Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., is a Nigeria

Nigeria

Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n journalist

Journalism

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 and author. His book In the Shadow of a Saint is a memoir of his father, executed activist and political prisoner Ken Saro-Wiwa

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...

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Wiwa was educated in Nigeria and at Stancliffe Hall School and Tonbridge School

Tonbridge School

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 in England and then at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, which is now part of University College London

University College London

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. Wiwa moved to Canada

Canada

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 in 1999, where he was a writer in residence at Massey College

Massey College

Massey College is a postgraduate residential college at the University of Toronto, established in 1963 with an endowment by the Massey Foundation. Similar to All Souls College, Oxford, members of Massey College are nominated from the university community, and are elected by and as fellows of the...

 in the University of Toronto and a columnist for The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

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. He was twice nominated for the National Newspaper Awards for Feature writing and was selected in 2005 as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. His memoir of his father, In the Shadow of a Saint, won the 2001 Hurston-Wright Non Fiction Award. In 2005 he returned to Nigeria and the following year former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Wiwa as his Special Assistant on peace, conflict resolution and reconciliation. He served President Umaru Yar'Adua as the Special Assistant on International Affairs until Yar'Adua died.

External links

• In the name of my father, a memoir by Wiwa