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• Today 10 November

  "12:30 The Late Story. On the Death of Ken Saro-Wiwa by Ken Saro-Wiwa.
• To hell with Abacha and his tinpot dictatorship

  "The Nigerian government, a tin-pot military dictatorship headed by Sani Abacha, is the most savage my country has ever endured."
• Pick of the day

  "Lord Oliver's son Richard and the Nigerian dissident Ken Saro-Wiwa's son also called Ken, discuss their famous father's in Between Them.'
• Rifkind threatens Nigeria sanctions

  "Nigeria called its suspension "unfortunate, unfair, and baseless'"
• Strong world from freedom fighters

  "When the late Nigerian writer was first arrested in 1994, a small group of his family and friends in Britain tried to have him released from prison."
• Body Shop helps Wiwa flee Nigeria

  "THe Waiwas had hoped that the death sentences on Saro-Wiwa and his eight friends would be commuted."
• Anniversaries

  "1995 Writer and activist is hanged in Nigeria."
• Pariah

  "The shock was as pronounced in the other great forum of the world debate, the United Nations.
• Nigerians rally against general

  "Abacha's reign is widely regarded as the darkest episode in Nigerian history in which the country turned into a police state."
• Innocence lost in Nigeria's turmoil

  "My earliest member is of my father [Ken Saro Wiwa], who was a government minister, leaving me to go to work and leaving me inconsolably.
• World Service

  "10.30. The Play of the Week: A Month and A Day. Drama based on the diaries written during his imprisonment by the executed Nigerian writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa."
• How agent Camus sank Greenpeace oil protests

  "He made a film on Shell in Nigeria called Business as Usual: the Arrogance of Power, during which he interviewed friends of Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nobel prize nominee who was hanged by the military regime in 1995 by leading a campaign against oil exploration."
• Wolves remain in the woods

  "Relations between the two countries have been severely strained since the execution last November of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other dissidents."
• World Service

  "10.30. The Play of the Week: A Month and A Day. Drama based on the diaries written during his imprisonment by the executed Nigerian writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa."
• Mandela touts 'Mr Fluff-it' as heir

  "He is also blamed for the architect of South Africa softly-softly approach to Nigeria's military rulers, which some say caused the regime to hang Ken Saro-Wiwa the Ogoni activist and leader and eight of his colleagues last year.
• Feuding Commonwealth finds unity

  "He was first to condemn the hanging in Nigeria of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow Ogoni human rights activists as 'judicial murder'"
• Editors defy Nigerian reign of fear

  "Reporters and editors are defying secret police threats and the risk of torture by running a flourishing underground media empire dedicated to telling civilians about the worst experiences of corruption and violence by the dictatorship."
• Nigeria takes first steps on freedom road

  "The army has abused Nigerian since it seized power in the 1960s."