"Ogoni"
The agony of trees dying in ancestral farmlands
Streams polluting, weeping filth into murky rivers
It is the poisoned air cursing the luckless lungs of dying children
Ogoni is the dream breaking the looping chain
around the drooping neck of a SHELLshocked land
Ken Saro Wiwa
His sentence by a hasty, unfounded, military tribunal of hanging was executed november 10 1995 nigeria royal dutch shell
