Ken Wiwa

**Kenule "Ken" Bornale Tsaro-Wiwa** o o itsegeng gape ka leina la **Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr,** mme ene a itlhophetse go dirisa leina la **Ken-Wiwa**, o tshotswe ka kgwedi ya Ngwanatsele e le malatsi a le masome a mabedi le boferabobedi ngwaga wa 1968, a tlhokafala ka kgwedi ya Phalane e le malatsi a le lesome le boferabobedi ka ngwaga wa 2016. Ke mokwadi ebile ke mmegadikgang kwa Nigeria. Ke ngwana wa ntlha wa mosimane wa molwela-ditshwanelo Ken Saro-Wiwa, o berekile e le mogakolodi wa botautona ba kwa Nigeria ba le bararo.

## Ka fa a godileng ka teng
Wiwa o tsholetswe kwa Lagos, Nigeria, ke morwa wa ntlha wa ga Ken Saro-Wiwa  o neng e le molwela ditshwanelo ebile ele mokwadi. O tsene sekolo kwa Nigeria pele ga a ya go nna kwa England le mmagwe le bomonnawe ka ngwaga wa 1978, kwa rragwe a neng a dumela gore o tla bona thuto ya maemo a a kwa godimo ka nako eo. Wiwa o tsene sekolo kwa Stancliffe Hall School le Tonbridge School, a tswelela a ya go tsena kwa School of Slavonic and East European Studies kwa janong e leng bontlha jwa University College London. E ne e le morulaganyi wa New Media Lab, kwa a neng a kgobokanya diteng tsa pampiri ya Guardian ya kwa United Kingdom e e mo mafaratlhatlheng.

## Bobegadikgang
Ka ngwaga wa 1999, Wiwa o ne a fudugela kwa Canada, kwa a neng a le mokwadi o santseng a ithuta kwa Massey College kwa University of Toronto, a tswelela a le "fellow" kwa Saul Rae kwa Munk Center for International Studies kwa University of Toronto, a nna morutuntshi kwa Trudeau Foundation kwa Canada, a kwalela karolo ya The Globe and Mail , kwa a tlhophilweng go phadisanela seetsele sa National Newspaper Awards.

Wiwa o file dipego kwa lekgotleng la European Union, Oxford Union, mme a bua kwa dikolong tse dikgolwane  di le mmalwa di akaretsa sa Harvard University, McGill University le University of Cambridge. O berekile e le mmegi kwa bokopanong jwa United Nations jwa pharologanyo ya dingwao. O nnile mmegi mo metsweding ya tshedimosetso e megolo e akaretsa CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, o tlhageletse e le moeng mo mananenong a BBC a HARDTalk le Newsnight.

Ka ngwaga wa 2005, Wiwa o ne a tlhophiwa ke ba lekgotla la World Economic Forum e le mogogi o mmotlana (Young Global Leader) . O simolotse lenaneo la *Abuja Hub for the Globalshapers Programme* la World Economic Forum, a nna bontlha bongwe jwa *Africa Advisory Council* ya lenaneo la kgosana wa kwa Wales la Rainforest. O kwaletse dipampiri tsa The Guardian kwa United Kingdom, le Washington Post, The New York Times le National Geographic kwa United States. O berekile e le mmegi wa *Arise Magazine* mme a tlaleletsa mo dikarolong dingwe tsa di makasine, dipampiri tsa dikgang le tsa maranyane.

Wiwa o tlhamile a bo a anela dithulaganyo tsa telebishini le seromamowa tsa BBC le CBC, a kwalela National Public Radio ditlaleletso. 

## Buka ya gagwe ya  In the shadow of a saint
Buka ya botshelo jwa ga rragwe ya *In the shadow of a saint*, e gatisitswe ka ngwaga wa 2000,mme ya amogela dikakgolo tse dintsi. Sandra Jordan o kwadile gore "Ken Wiwa ga a itshomarele mo polelong e. O ntsha boammaruri jo a sa bo itumeleleng. O mo utlwela botlhoko. O utlwela rragwe botlhoko. Buka ya gagwe e e kwadilweng ka manontlhotlho e ama ditso tsa Nigeria le tsa lolwapa lwa gagwe, tse di neng di le makgwakgwa go sena tsholofelo. Buka e ke pina ya batho ba lotso lwa Ogoni, e e fa tshokolo ya bone le boitshoko jwa bone tlotla. Fa godimo ga foo, ke polelo e e buwang ka go ikepela mo ditiragalong tsa bogologolo; bana ba bagaka ba fitlhela matshelo a bone a tlhotlheleditswe ke batsadi ba bone, selo se Wiwa a se lemogang fa a kopana le *Nkosinathi Biko* o eleng ngwana wa ga Steve Biko, Zindzi Mandela le Aung San Suu Kyi."

Buka e e tlhalositswe ke The Independent fa e balega e bile e nonne, Africa Confidential yone ya re "ke buka e ka nako tse dingwe  e leng botlhoko, mme e bua boammaruri, e lebelela matshelo a batho le sepolotiki sa bangwe ba batho ba kwa Nigeria" Publishers Weekly yone mmegi wa yone o ne a re "buka e e tseneletseng e ya ga Wiwa, e supa popego ya sepolotiki sa kwa Nigeria, le tebego e ntle ya ga rragwe." In the shadow of a saint e fentse seetsele sa ngwaga wa 2002 sa Hurston-Wright Nonfiction Award.

## Mothusi o o faphegileng
Ka ngwaga wa 2005, o ne a boela kwa Nigeria, mme ngwaga o o latelang, tautona wa nako eo Olusegun Obasanjo a fira Wiwa e le mothusi o o faphegileng wa tsa kagiso, tharabololo kgotlhang le tetlanyo. O berekile le tautona Umaru Yar'Adua e le mothusi o o faphegileng wa dikgang tsa mafatshefatshe. Wiwa o nnile gape mothusi o o faphegileng wa bobegadikgang jwa mafatsefatshe wa ga tautona Goodluck Jonathan go tswa ka ngwaga wa 2012.

## Loso lwa gagwe
Wiwa o tlhokafetse ka tshoganetso morago ga go swa mohama kwa Lontone ka ngwaga wa 2016, kgwedi ya Phalane e le lesome le boferabobedi, a le dingwaga di le masome mane le bosupa. Tautona wa kwa Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari o ne a isa tlotla ya gagwe a re " Wiwa e ne e le modumedi wa kgolagano, tswelelopele le tshitshibalo mo sechabeng. Ke gwetlha ba lolwapa, ditsala le ba a kileng a dirisana le bone go tlotla botshelo jwa gagwe ka go netefatsa gore toro ya gagwe ya go somarela tikologo, le go netefatsa gore Ogoniland o a atlega.

## Mekwalo e e tlhophilweng

* *In the Shadow of a Saint: A son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy*, Doubleday, ISBN 0385601859, 2000. E tserwe mo The Guardian e le "A difficult martyr" 28 October 2000, le "A difficult martyr - part 2" 28 October 2000.
* "Letter to My Father", Index On Censorship, Vol. 34, No 4, 2005, pp. 24 - 29.
* "In the name of my father", The Observer, 6 November 2005.
* " We Nigerians are celebrating Mandela as the kind of hero we've never had", The Guardian, 8 December 2013.
* "Finally it seems as if Ken Saro-Wiwa, my father, may not have died in vain", The Guardian, 10 November 2015.

## Metswedi