The father of Nigerian human rights activist and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa has passed away. Jim Beeson Wiwa, a chief of the Ogoni people of southern Nigeria, died on April 1 at his home in Bane, Nigeria. He was believed to have been 101 years old. After his son was executed in 1995 for his resistance to the Shell Oil Corporation, Jim Wiwa became a symbol of the Ogoni struggle to defend their land and people from Nigeria’s military regime and their corporate cronies. In 1998, Democracy Now!'s Jeremy Scahill and I were guests in Jim Wiwa's home in Ogoniland.