Dr. Owens Wiwa, M.D., is the brother of the late Nigerian writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was the president of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian military government on November 10, 1995. Owens Wiwa. A medical doctor and human rights activist, escaped Nigeria just days after his brother's execution. In his medial practice, Dr.Wiwa has been a resident in hospitals in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Bori and Taaban, and Ogoni. In 1990, he established two private rural health centers in Ogoni to care for the needs of the Ogoni people. In doing so, he treated hundreds of Ogoni men, women and children injured as a result of the ongoing military oppression. As a political activist, Dr. Wiwa has documented human rights abuses perpetrated upon the Ogoni people by the Nigerian army, as well as environmentally-related diseases among the Ogoni people as a result of Shell Oil Company's takeover of Ogoni land for drilling. He is a member of the steering committee of MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People) and has held other posts in the Ogoni movement, including chairmanships of the Ogoni Health and Social Welfare Committee and the Ogoni Relief and Rehabilitation Committee. Dr. Wiwa is a spirited warrior and an inspiration to all who love and cherish freedom. His unbroken will is a guiding light to all African people in the Motherland and abroad. Too few African-Americans know of his work and of the on-the-ground struggle of the Ogoni people. As some 35 million strong with an annual purchasing power of nearly half a trillion dollars, African Americans owe it to Dr. Wiwa and the people of Ogoni to use our resources, expertise, and political muscle to fight against oppression and injustice in Nigeria as was the case in dismantling the evil system of apartheid in South Africa. Through Dr. Wiwa's leadership and example, we are inching closer to that goal.