KEN SARO-WIWA CENTRE AT 24 AGGREY ROAD: A SPACE FOR STORY-TELLERS

KSWF focuses on culture, education, communication and art as mediums for change in Nigeria. By creating an social space for the urban communities of Port Harcourt, the Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation Centre would be a hub for learning, personal development and creative thinking.

There is an absence of a cultural space for creative development in Port Harcourt and surrounding environs. By combining an internet café, gallery, library and social space; the KSW centre wants to generate a multidisciplinary dialogue about the region with families, community groups, youths and schools. Literature, poetry, art, online research and theatre are used to engage citizens in discussions centred on collaboration, place, childhood, gender, human rights, housing, employment, belief identity and the environment.

The KSWF believe that empowered communities, with the space to discuss policies, issues, concerns and grievances creatively can become agents of change, upholding their basic socio-political and economic rights, such as the promotion and protection of free expression.