Contents

1. Praise for the first edition

2. Preface to new edition

   Noo Saro-Wiwa

4. About the contributors

5. Acknowledgments

6. Foreword to the first edition

   Nnimmo Bassey

7. Introduction to the second edition

   Helen Fallon, Íde Corley & Laurence Cox

8. Introductory

   1. The Ken Saro-Wiwa Collection at the Library, Maynooth University, Ireland

      Helen Fallon

   2. Ken Saro-Wiwa and West African Literature: The Politics of Language

      Íde Corley

   3. Ken Saro-Wiwa in Political Context: Social Movements in the Niger Delta

      Laurence Cox

   4. The Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Audio Archive

      Dr Anne O’Brien and Helen Fallon

   5. The Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Bursary: My Research on the origins of the oil industry

      Graham Kay

   6. A dying village

      Majella McCarron

9. Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Letters to Sister Majella

   1. Note from the Editors

   2. October 20, 1993

   3. December 1, 1993

   4. July 13, 1994

   5. Undated letter

   6. July 24, 1994

   7. July 30, 1994

   8. August 15, 1994

   9. September 16, 1994

   10. October 1, 1994

   11. October 11, 1994

   12. October 19, 1994

   13. October 24, 1994

   14. October 27, 1994

   15. October 29, 1994 (1)

   16. October 29, 1994 (2)

   17. October 30, 1994

   18. 22 November, 1994

   19. December 24, 1994

   20. January 15, 1995

   21. February 7, 1995

   22. March 21, 1995

   23. March 24, 1995

   24. May 2, 1995

   25. June 19, 1995

   26. July 8, 1995

   27. September 14, 1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s last letter

10. Poems

    1. I lie alone at night

    2. For Anita Roddick

    3. For Sr. Majella McCarron

    4. The celebrants

    5. Fire

    6. Prison song

    7. Mama came calling

    8. Victory song

    9. Ogoni! Ogoni!

    10. MOSOP

    11. Ogoni hymn

    12. Geneva

    13. Around the court of Abuja fame

    14. Babangidance (1)

    15. Babangidance (2)

    16. Charred woman

    17. For Zina

    18. Stone deaf

    19. For Tedum (B. 8.7.78) who died at Eton College (15.3.93)

    20. Morning song

    21. Whore

    22. Town-crier

    23. Night time

    24. The call

    25. Keep out of prison

    26. Detention haircut

    27. On the visit of the doctors to my cell

    28. Tall love

11. Afterword

    Mark Dummett

12. Appendices

13. Chronology of key events in Ken Saro-Wiwa's life

14. Select bibliography

15. Key to the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive

16. The archives at Maynooth University

17. Resource toolkit