Ken Wiwa was educated in Nigeria before going in 1978, along with his mother and siblings, to live in England where his father believed he would receive the best possible education at that time.
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Ken Wiwa was editor of the United Kingdom's Guardians periodical New Media Lab, where he developed content for the paper's online edition.
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In 1999, Ken Wiwa relocated to Canada, where he was a writer-in-residence at Massey College in the University of Toronto, Saul Rae Fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, a mentor at the Trudeau Foundation in Canada and a columnist for The Globe and Mail, where he was twice nominated for National Newspaper Awards for feature writing.
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Ken Wiwa addressed the European Union, Oxford Union and spoke at a number of colleges and universities, including Harvard University, McGill University and the University of Cambridge.
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Ken Wiwa served as a conference rapporteur at a United Nations meeting on cultural diversity.
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In 2005, Ken Wiwa was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
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Ken Wiwa was the founding curator of the Abuja Hub for the Globalshapers Programme of the World Economic Forum and served on the Africa Advisory Council of the Prince of Wales Rainforest Project.
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Ken Wiwa wrote for The Guardian in the UK, and the Washington Post, The New York Times and National Geographic, in the United States.
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Ken Wiwa served as an editor-at-large for Arise Magazine and contributed occasional columns for magazines, newspapers and blogs.
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Ken Wiwa produced and narrated television and radio documentaries for the BBC and CBC, and wrote commentaries for National Public Radio.
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Ken Wiwa's elegantly written book is a weave of Nigerian and family history, both turbulent, both tragic, neither without hope.
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Ken Wiwa served President Umaru Yar'Adua as a special assistant on international affairs.
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Ken Wiwa was President Goodluck Jonathan's senior special assistant on civil society and international media, from 2012.
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Ken Wiwa died suddenly in London on 18 October 2016, aged 47, after suffering a stroke.