Ken Saro-Wiwa was never an Igbo man to betray the Igbo. He was an Ogoni man and rather rose up to protect ethnic cleansing in Ogoniland in the name of a new country by Ojukwu whom Zik had described as arrogant. The Ogoni are neighbors to the Igbos and have done business with each other for centuries as equals, including intermarriage. None was a slave to each other and none was a master.
In fact, while the Igbos were selling each other as slaves, majorly the Arochukwu people who raided villages of the other Igbo kingdoms - primarily those located in the Igbo hinterlands to sell to the Europeans for money, the Ogoni people resisted them and cut off totally so that till today it is recorded that no single Ogoni person was sold into slavery. Meanwhile over 1.2 million Igbos were sold as slaves and founded themselves in the Barbados, Haiti, Georgia, West Virginia, Jamaica etc.
Now there are lies flying about that Ken Saro-Wiwa went to Enugu to beg for the Igbo intervention during his travail. In all of Ken's writings, he had made it clear that the struggle for resource control was something that he was ready to die for. He had all the opportunities to run away right from the comfort of the waters of his village in Bane but stayed put.
The Ogoni people have always been a strong enthic population who resisted oppression. The Europeans even captured this in many of their histories about indigenous tribes in Nigeria.
Credit: Ogoni TV
