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...fundamental human rights? One must ask why the unfettered liberties that made the 9/11 attacks possible were not available to the attackers in their native lands. The battle between faith and fear continues to rage, but the West must watch out for more whirlwinds from the East. Ferdinand Nweke Bauchi, Nigeria...
...finest works are, ironically, those borrowing from a more traditional Eastern sense of elegance and simplicity, rather than the stereotypically busy idea of America. Bauchi Zhang of China offers "Did God Create the Chinese?", a visually striking, yet simplistically eloquent work, consisting only of a molded hand cleft by a knife, a mirror, and wood. The work speaks directly and without distraction--a quality to be prized in capturing the unruly nature of questions of identity. Most importantly, the straightforward nature of the work suggests a mind that has cogitated carefully enough on the subject to realize its basic nature...
...Matter of Chance. The man who rules Nigeria today is two years older than his country. He was born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training...
Armed with his rare education, Abubakar returned to the windswept Bauchi Plateau and settled down on the staff of a Boys Middle School; he was a born teacher, and might have spent his life there except for a chance remark by a friend, who said that no northern Nigerian had ever passed the examination for a Senior Teacher's Certificate. Piqued by this reflection on northern intelligence, Abubakar took the exam and, to the astonishment of southern colleagues, passed it with ease. Impressed, London University's Institute of Education granted him a scholarship...
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