Word: abiola
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daughter of the imprisoned president-elect of Nigeria and his recently-assassinated wife. Abiola speaks at university, local and state legislature meetings about the situation in her home country whenever the organizations have related resolutions pending. At Harvard, that means urging the University to divest from companies such as Shell Oil that support the regime in Nigeria...
Perhaps the most moving call for international activism comes from Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97, the director of the Harvard Committee on Nigeria...
...magazine interview recently, Kudirat Abiola said she had been targeted with death threats and spoke of being followed by suspicious...
...military regime has been under intense international pressure to release Moshood Abiola and scores of other political prisoners jailed since Abacha's November 1993 coup...
Soon after Saro-Wiwa's execution, Hafsat Abiola convinced the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution calling for University divestment from Nigeria...