Word: abeokuta
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Playwright Wole Soyinka stormed into the government radio station at Ibadan to demand new elections; he was arrested. Market women closed down their stalls in protest, leaving many towns short of food. Riots in one town left 35 dead. An other town was burned to the ground, and at Abeokuta, Awolowo supporters drove nails into the heads of a pro-Northern judge and his court clerk. All told, more than 70 persons were killed and hundreds injured in three weeks of post-election violence...