Abstract
After a successful and controversial 30-year career as civil servant, businessman, writer and political activist within Nigeria, Ken Saro-Wiwa became internationally famous at the moment of his death. His execution in November 1995, widely understood as an attempt to silence an outspoken critic of a corrupt national government and an exploitative multinational corporation, instead secured global coverage and galvanised international support for his campaign for ethnic self-determination and environmental justice for the Ogoni. This paper examines the ways in which Saro-Wiwa's death is made to speak his own meanings rather than those of the state that killed him, and identifies some locations of and resistances to the narrative of his martyrdom: the Nigerian state, the Ogoni community and the Saro-Wiwa family witness in different ways the significance of his life and death.
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