KEN SARO-WIWA FOUNDATION - NIGERIA

The Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation in Canada will deliver much of its community action and
peacebuilding programing through its sister organization in Nigeria. The Foundation, which has a
Nigerian Board of Directors, which expects to complete legal registration procedures by the fall of
2005, has established an office in Port Harcourt. Its formal launch will take place at the ceremony to
mark the Tenth Anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa to be held in Port Harcourt on
November 5, 2005.

OGONI

Ogoni is a loosely defined, 1000 square kilometre area of the Niger Delta, lying to the east of Port Harcourt, the petroleum capital of Nigeria. Bounded by the Imo River on the north, the Andoni region in the south, the mouth of the Imo River to the east and the Aba-Port Harcourt highway to the west, it is an area of swamplands, creeks, rivers and rich alluvial soils, overlying rich deposits of oil and natural gas. The half million Ogoni people speak three languages–Gokana, Khana and Eleme–and live in six kingdoms. Traditionally, they have lived by subsistence farming and fishing. Their land and rivers, which provide sustenance, are worshipped, making its devastation by the oil industry a spiritual, as well as an environmental tragedy.