The Politics of Bones

The Politics of Bones

Infobox Book
name = The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil


author = J. Timothy Hunt
country = Canada
language = English
subject = anti-globalization,petroleum, Nigeria
publisher = McClelland & Stewart
release_date = September 2005
media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback)
pages = 400 (first edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-771-04154-3(hardcover)
ISBN 0-771-04158-6(paperback)
followed_by =

"The Politics of Bones: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria's Oil" is a book by Canadian journalist J. Timothy Hunt. It was published by McClelland & Stewart in September 2005 just before the tenth anniversary of the controversial execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

On November 10, 1995, Nigeria’s military dictatorship executed nine environmental activists. Among them was Ken Saro-Wiwa, the charismatic spokesman of the Ogoni people, whose land in the fertile Niger River delta has been grotesquely polluted by the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation. During Ken’s incarceration, his brother, Dr. Owens Wiwa, fought valiantly to save his life. When his quest failed, Owens narrowly escaped Nigeria with his life, first to London, and then to Toronto.

The Politics of Bones documents Owens's personal battle against the Nigerian government to locate his brother's remains after they were buried in an unmarked mass-grave. Over the torturous course of ten years, Owens finally succeeded in locating and properly burying his brother in the summer of 2005.

ee also

*History of Nigeria

External links

* [http://www.thepoliticsofbones.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771041587 "The Politics of Bones", by J. Timothy Hunt]
* [http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/0119/book1.htm "A Martyr to Big Oil," FFWD Weekly, Vol. 11 #06: Thursday, January 19, 2006]
* [http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=2813 "Blood for Oil" by Minister Faust, Vue Weekly]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1913 Letter of protest published in the New York Review of Books shortly before Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution]
* [http://www.kensarowiwa.com/ The Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation]
* [http://www.sephis.org/pdf/ogonipeople.pdf Ethnic conflicts and the defence of the Ogoni]
* [http://www.unpo.org/Downloads/Ogoni1995Report.pdf The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) 1995 Ogoni report]


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