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Combating Ecological Terror: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Genocide in Nigeria
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2011
- pp. 75-91
- 10.1353/mml.2011.0015
- Article
- Additional Information
Besides creating a language of terror and suffering, Saro-wiwa uses these rhetorical strategies to construct his main argument: that oil drilling is devastating. The results are a compelling call for action from his international readers and an indictment of an unjust and inhumane Nigerian sociopolitical system.