Ken Wiwa is a Nigerian activist and a columnist for the Toronto Globe and Mail. His book, In the Shadow of a Saint (Random House, 2000), is a personal memoir about his relationship with his father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in his prison cell in Nigeria on the orders of a military tribunal in 1995. Ken Wiwa is the Saul Rae Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

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Ten years after the judicial murder of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by the Nigerian military, Ken Wiwa pays tribute and says that the best memorial to his father is a campaign for “creative justice”.

Is America’s foreign policy a slave to political priorities and business interests? In the fifteenth of our Letters to Americans series, Ken Wiwa, justice campaigner and advocate for the Ogoni people in the Niger delta, writes to Gayle Smith, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.