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Silence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Ken SaroWiwa / Ide Corley / Helen Fallon
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This is a testament to the bravery of my father, Ken Saro-Wiwa. His words are an inspiration to anyone fighting against tyranny, and a reminder to oppressors the world over that the human spirit can never be broken. Noo Saro-Wiwa, author of Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria (2012).

Here is a remarkable book of the correspondence from one of the greatest leaders of our time to a strong and gentle Catholic sister living half-way around the world. Ken Saro-Wiwa, enduring harsh treatment and facing certain death, writes from detention in Nigeria about justice and honour and sets the bar for courage for the rest of us. Struggles for indigenous justice in the face of corporate tyranny continue to this day. Everyone engaged in these struggles will be moved and inspired by these haunting letters written by a legend. Maude Barlow, author, activist and National Chairperson of Council of Canadians.

A poingnant collection that unveils a remarkable friendship as much as it animates the memory of Saro-Wiwas indomitable spirit. It is perhaps one of the the bitter ironies of his life he had to feed the soldiers who gurarded him as well as witness army captains fight over who should be his jailer. Brian Chikwava, write and winner of the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing, Associate Editor, Wasafiri Magazine

More fully than any biographical essay would have done, the letters and the poems reveal the mind of the campaigner for justice while he is under arrest, courageously planning and prompting, writing and keeping himself informed, keeping his cause alive, but they also show Ken Saro-Wiwa as the anxious father worrying about his children and as the man alone thrown on his resources. The three lucid essays which frame the letters prove an excellent and informative guide to the events behind the letters and add to the imporance of this publication. Abdulrazak Gurnah, novelist, Booker Prize nominee 2004, winner of the RFI Tmoin du Monde Prize 2006 and Professor of English at the University of Kent

The letters and poems collected in this volume show with great eloquence that Saro-Wiwa confronted Abachas darkness, and the darkness of the international oil conglomerates, especially Shell, with anger, sadness, wit and humour. In nearly every letter and poem in the volume there is suffusing light and uncommon grace. I confidently expect that in time, this slim volume will take its rightful place among the most important works of prison writing and environmental activism in the world. Biodun Jeyifo, Harvard University

Following Ken Saro-Wiwas second arrest in 1994, Sr Majella McCarron approached Trcaire for help. His release became a priority campaign for us, and we engaged with Shell, the media and Government to try and commute the death sentences for him and the eight co-accused Ogoni leaders. I remember the despair in Trcaires offices on 10th November 1995 when we learned that all nine had been executed. The struggle of the Ogoni people is a part of Trcaires history, and the writings in Silence Would be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa are a testament to Ken Saro-Wiwas spirit and courage, demonstrating that, even in the darkest of times, love truly can conquer fear. amonn Meehan, Executive Director of Trcaire

I couldnt help but wonder what took this book so long to come out. Perhaps because of the mediumpersonal letters to Sr. Majellayet still, given their scope: the political content and indomitable spirit, the environmental issues in Ogoniland, the international campaign for the Ogoni Nine and the prospects for democracy in Nigeria and elsewhere, one would have hoped that it was clear they belonged in the public domain. Considering the delay therefore, 18 years of silence have been committed. Thank goodness the book is now available and what a story! The kind that would not forgive silence if it had remained untold. Mildred Barya, African Literary News, 2013

Clear and direct, these letters and poems are the last expression of a voice the regime was determined to silence: a voice for indigenous rights, environmental survival and democracy, many of those battles were won despite his death and whose voice comes alive today again in these extraordinary letters. Boletim Africanista, 2013

Silence Would be Treason Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa, is a great book. It revives and supplements the fading memories of actors and actresses like us (not spectators) during the gloomy days. It needs to be read carefully with an open mind. The book contains correct information about the hey days of the Ogoni struggle, its victories, failures, betrayals and travails in the naked face of highly organized state/corporate violence and conspiracies against a marginalised and embittered people of the eastern Niger Delta belt in Nigeria. Patrick Naagbanton, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 2014

Silence Would Be Treason

Last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

de Corley, Helen Fallon, and Laurence Cox

Daraja Press

Originally co-published by CODESRIA (http://www.codesria.org) and Daraja Press (https://darajapress.com) 2014. This new edition is published by Daraja Press.
Text letters and images: Copyright 2018 John Paul II Library, Maynooth University
Ken Saro-Wiwas poems: 2018 Ken Saro-Wiwa Estate.
All rights reserved.
Maynooth University is not responsible for the opinions or views expressed in this book.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 1941-1995
[Works. Selections]
Silence would be treason : last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa /
de Corley, Helen Fallon, Laurence Cox, editors. Second edition.

Originally published: Dakar, Senegal : The Council for the Development of
Social Science Research in Africa ; Nairobi : Daraja Press, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-988832-24-1 (softcover)

1. Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 1941-1995. 2. Saro-Wiwa, Ken, 1941-1995
Correspondence. 3. Nigerian poetry (English). I. Corley, de, editor
II. Fallon, Helen, editor III. Cox, Laurence, editor IV. Title.

PR9387.9.S27A6 2018 828.91409 C2018-904323-7

But while the land is ravaged
And our pure air poisoned
When streams choke with pollution
Silence would be treason

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Contents

Preface to new edition

Noo Saro-Wiwa

IN 1992, WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, my father wrote me a letter from Nigeria informing me that his campaign for environmental and human rights was intensifying and that the government could kill him. He hadnt been incarcerated at that point; life seemed normal and I read his words with incredulity. Surely he was scaremongering, the way parents sometimes do. How could anyone contemplate their own violent demise so collectedly?

It is said that courage is defined not by the absence of fear but the ability to overcome it. My father knew the risks when he took on the Nigerian military government and Shell Oil. The fact that he could go to battle, eyes wide open, against such formidable opponents was a mark of his hardiness and ambition. We the Ogoni people were specks against the giant rockface of Nigerias military-industrial complex, and until the 1990s few outside the Niger Delta region knew who we were. Yet my father brought our environmental problems to the planets consciousness through persistence and a belief that justice will eventually prevail when pursued peacefully.

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