The library is currently hosting an exhibition on Ken Saro-Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a renowned writer, social activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He is widely known for his leadership role in MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), which protested against the actions of the Nigerian military regime and western oil interests. The exhibition includes facsimiles of selected letters to an Irish missionary nun, Sister Majella McCarron, as well as poems and images from the Ken Saro-Wiwa archive housed at Maynooth University library in Kildare, Ireland. Selected works by and about Saro-Wiwa are also on display. These primary and secondary sources tell the story of the small Kingdom of Ogniland located in the oil rich Niger delta. Ogniland lacked basic infrastructure and oil exploration and production left the local environment polluted. Saro-Wiwa organized a massive protest movement that eventually led to his incarceration and execution on November 10, 1995. The exhibition was curated by Helen Fallon, Maynooth University’s deputy university librarian. Fallon and several senior Maynooth librarians visited the University in October via the University’s five-year exchange program with Maynooth. The Ken Saro-Wiwa exhibition will be on display until the end of the 2017 Spring Semester and is free and open to the public. It may be viewed during regular library hours. For more information contact the library circulation desk at 203-582-3713.