In Popular Culture
Saro Wiwa's execution is quoted and used as an inspiration for Beverley Naidoo's 2000 novel The Other Side of Truth. A novel, Eclipse, based on the events in Nigeria, was published by Richard North Patterson in 2009. The folk duo Magpie included the song "Saro-Wiwa" on their album Give Light, with the credit: "Words and Music by Terry Leonino and Ken Saro-Wiwa". A Igbo high-life Bongo musician hailing from Owerri in Imo State, Nigeria is currently recording under the stage name "Saro-Wiwa". King Cobb Steelie, a Indie Rock - Jazz fusion band from Guelph, Ontario, Canada, wrote a song, "Rational" in their album Junior Relaxer, inspired by events surrounding Ken Saro-Wiwa's death and the impact it had on those of us living in peaceful and more privileged communities. The Finnish band Ultra Bra dedicated their song "Ken Saro-Wiwa on kuollut" ("Ken Saro-Wiwa is dead") to the memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Italian band Il Teatro degli Orrori dedicated their song "A sangue freddo" ("In cold blood" - also the title track of their second album) to the memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
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