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Shola Lawal

Nigeria kills her sun: Death and vindication for Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni Nine

Protesters hold up signs with images of Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed in Nigeria along with eight other activists in 1995 [File: Martin Pope/Getty Images]

Lagos, Nigeria – “Lord, take my soul, but the struggle continues,” the man said, before his body went limp. It swung gently from the makeshift gallows, hurriedly built a few days earlier. Before that morning, the prison had last enforced a death sentence 30 years earlier, during British rule.

It was November 10, 1995.

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