Word: fulani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of HASA read selections from the poetry of David Diop, Okot p'Bitek and Mafika Mbuli, as well as a traditional Fulani creation story...
Even rank-and-file Reformers are snubbing Perot. Some think his decision to accept nearly $30 million in taxpayers' money is a raid on the very Treasury he complains is already empty. Others worry that he is attracting types like left-fringe politico Lenora Fulani. Officials of New York's Independence Party are threatening to drop Perot from their ticket because of what they see as massive irregularities in the nomination process. Nearly a third of their 38,000 members didn't receive ballots as promised, while nonmembers got ballots simply by phoning Reform headquarters and asking for them...
...hour-and-a-half session was cautious; he remembered to rein himself in. In fact, he joked about how careful he has to be these days, quickly and comically correcting himself (changing "grotesque" to "sad," for instance, to describe his recent media coverage, and calling psychologist turned politician Lenora Fulani first a "nut candidate," then the more euphemistic "candidate of limited public appeal...
...would lend expertise and manpower. And the experience of less impressive independent candidates suggests that ballot access is not an insurmountable problem. George Wallace in 1968 and John Anderson in 1980 bolted from their parties late in the game and managed to be on every state's ballot. Lenora Fulani did the same in 1988, running on the utterly obscure New Alliance ticket...
...have ruled the country for 23 of its 33 years of independence -- for diminishing the Nigerian soul. Endemic corruption; the narrowing opportunities in the country that once held out so much promise; the exploitation of bitter rivalries among the three largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa-Fulani -- all have sapped the nation's resources, its cohesion, its confidence. Instead of building a nation, the democrats charge, the soldiers have prevented it from being born. Says Didi Adodo, a labor leader: "The colonialists did not do as much damage to the Nigerian psyche as Babangida...