 Ken Wiwa is the son of murdered Nigerian writer, journalist and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was imprisoned for his campaign to protect Nigeria's Ogoni people from the environmental and cultural destruction wreaked by the Nigerian oil industry and the country's rulers. Tragically, in 1995, Saro-Wiwa was executed by Nigeria's military government. During his father's incarceration and trial, Ken Wiwa travelled the world, tirelessly lobbying world leaders, writing, speaking and campaigning for his father and the Ogoni people. Ken Wiwa's novel, In the Shadow of a Saint (2000) chronicles these experiences. He later produced a major documentary of the same title, about his father for CBC-TV. Ken Wiwa moved to Toronto with his wife and son in May of 1999. He is a former journalist and editor at The Guardian, writes for the Globe and Mail, and is a senior resident writer at Massey College, University of Toronto.
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