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We did not kill the man	A
No	B
History will not allow us that lie	C
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The rope that tightened his breath	D
Was woven far away	E
Signed by hands that never touched Ogoni soil	F
Yet	G
The silence that followed	H
That was ours	I
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Ken Saro Wiwa died once	J
But his words	K
They are dying daily	L
	-
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller	M
He warned us	N
he must be actively involved in shaping society	L
	-
But tell me	L
What happens	O
When the storytellers become spectators	I
When pens are traded for appointments	P
And truth is exchanged for access	Q
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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People	R
Was not built as a monument	S
It was a movement	S
	-
But now	T
It breathes like an old man abandoned by his children	U
Its voice reduced to ceremonial echoes	V
Its fire negotiated into ashes	W
	-
We gathered once	J
Not for contracts	X
But for survival	R
	-
Now we gather	M
To share influence	J
To divide relevance	J
To inherit struggle without continuing it	Y
	-
Silence would be treason	U
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Yet silence has become our dialect	Z
Fluent	S
Comfortable	R
Profitable	R
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In classrooms across the land	A2
Ask them	B2
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Who has read Sozaboy	C2
Who has touched The Basket of Flowers	I
Who remembers Tombari in Dukana	U
	-
The chalk hesitates	D2
The air goes blank	E2
	-
Because memory is no longer taught	F2
It is left to decay	E
	-
What dies first	G2
The man	U
Or the meaning	H2
	-
A people do not lose their heroes	V
When they are killed	I2
They lose them	B2
When they are no longer studied	J2
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The oil still flows	V
The rivers still remember	M
The soil still aches beneath careless feet	K2
But the children	U
They no longer know	U
Why the land once cried	L2
	-
We feared the hangman	U
But we should have feared ourselves more	M2
Because only a people	R
Can bury their own message	N2
And call it progress	Q
	-
You will not find betrayal	R
In the boots of strangers alone	U
	-
Sometimes	O2
It sits comfortably	L
In local chairs	P2
Wearing familiar names	Q2
	-
What is a struggle	R
Without memory	L
	-
A ritual	R
	-
What is a movement	S
Without purpose	N
	-
A gathering	H2
	-
What is leadership	R2
Without sacrifice	S2
	-
A transaction	U
	-
We have not lost Ken Saro Wiwa	E
No	U
We are losing him	T2
Slowly	L
Deliberately	L
Curriculum by curriculum	U2
Silence by silence	J
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And one day	E
A generation will rise	V2
That knows the price of oil	F
But not the cost of justice	N
They will inherit pipelines	W2
But not principles	X2
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And on that day	E
We will finally understand	A2
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The messenger was executed once	J
But the message	N2
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The message was suffocated	Y2
By those	V
It was meant to save	Z2

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