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- ↑ Noo Saro-Wiwa (5 January 2012). Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria. Granta Publications. ISBN 978-1-84708-552-8.
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- ↑ "Silence would be teason". The Documentary Podcast. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ↑ Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Boko Haram: Why selfies won't 'bring back our girls'", Prospect, 20 May 2014.
- ↑ Noo Saro-Wiwa, "Bombastic, monochrome and simplistic – and yet still I love Top Gun", The Guardian, 16 May 2016.
