Amsterdam Names Street After Nigeria's Ken Saro-Wiwa (Photo)

Ken Saro-Wiwa

 

Nigeria's foremost activist, human rights crusader and writer from Ogoniland, Ken Saro-Wiwa has been immortalized in far away Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate oil spillage.

He was brutally executed by the heartless late military ruler of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha in 1995 for fighting for the cleanup of Ogoni land.