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.
openAwakening in conjunction with the University of East London is organizing a three-part event series on ‘The Tahrir Square Meme’ to be held at UEL's Dockland Campus.
Our first event is Rap and the Arab Spring.
The Long and the Quick of revolution Anthony Barnett
We live in revolutionary times... but what does this mean? Anthony Barnett
The precariat: why it needs deliberative democracy Guy Standing
The Long Revolution Raymond Williams
Jim Gabour Sunday Comics
James Warner Standing Perpendicular, as books do
Markha Valenta Inter Alia: religion, politics, culture
Paul Rogers on Global security
Li Datong on China from the inside
Mary Kaldor on Human security
Daniele Archibugi on Cosmopolitan democracy
