The Ogoni People are a distinct ethnic group, made up of speakers of the Gokana, Kana, Tai, Eleme and Baan languages. Although, linguistically and culturally related, the Eleme people assert their distinctness from the other Ogoni groups.
> Notes on linguistic affiliationOgoniland covers approximately 404 square miles to the east of Port Harcourt in southeastern Nigeria. It has a combined population of around 500,000 people.
Undoubtedly the most well known of all Ogoni people is Ken Saro Wiwa, a writer and political activist who acted as spokesman for the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), an organisation dedicated to the protection of the interests of the Ogoni people. Of the 6 kingdoms belonging to Ogoniland, leaders of all but Eleme have singed the Ogoni Bill of Rights, a document laying out the claims and expectations of the Ogoni people.