Peter Willcox by Giovanna Rudis Born March 6th, 1953 in Woodstock, Vermont, Willcox    had a relatively normal childhood, and his education ends at the high school level with the Putney School in Vermont. Notably enough, Willcox’s childhood was marked by early exposure to activism, as both of his parents were politically active. Attending various civil rights demonstrations as a child, he developed experience and interest in activism. After spending time doing research on humpback whales, Willcox would devote his career to marine and environmental activism.     Peter Willcox joined Greenpeace’s ranks after taking a position to be a deckhand on the Rainbow Warrior. Greenpeace is an environmental organization that defends the natural world by promoting peace by “investigating, exposing, and confronting environmental abuse.” Just on his first day, Willcox was promoted to first mate and he quickly became the skipper, and his aptitude for leadership became more noticeable...

Ken Saro-Wiwa by Ho Tsz Ching One of the most famous television shows from Africa is a sitcom called Basi and Company. This pioneering piece of Nigerian television was created by someone called Ken Saro-Wiwa. If you were alive in the distant 90s, you might have heard of him, but almost certainly for a very different reason. [AUDIO: broadcast of 1995 reporting the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa by the Nigerian government] So how does a sitcom showrunner become an influential political leader and a martyr for an entire ethnic group? Ken Saro-Wiwa was born in 1941 to an Ogoni chieftain family. As a child, he was incredibly gifted academically, which admitted him to the prestigious Government College Umuahia and the University of Ibadan.This catapulted him into the ranks of Nigeria’s elite; at the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War, he threw himself behind the Federal Government, and the prestige of his education opened the door for him to be made Civillian Administrator of the recently retake...