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Search - List of Books by Ken Wiwa
Ken Wiwa (born 1968, Lagos), also known as Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., is a Nigerian journalist and author. His book In the Shadow of a Saint is a memoir of his father, executed activist and political prisoner Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Educated in Nigeria and at Stancliffe Hall School and Tonbridge School in England and then at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, which is now part of University College London, Wiwa moved to Canada in 1999, where he was a writer in residence at Massey College in the University of Toronto and was a columnist for The Globe and Mail. 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 is currently serving President Umaru Yar'Adua as the Special Assistant on International Affairs.
Educated in Nigeria and at Stancliffe Hall School and Tonbridge School in England and then at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, which is now part of University College London, Wiwa moved to Canada in 1999, where he was a writer in residence at Massey College in the University of Toronto and was a columnist for The Globe and Mail. 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 is currently serving President Umaru Yar'Adua as the Special Assistant on International Affairs.
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