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Despite her assertive personality and outgoing reputation, there is much more to this entrepreneur than fierce social skills. Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, Johnson spent most of her earlier years there until she moved to England for high school. As a freshman in Canaday, Johnson felt different from her peers, and although she was involved in a slew of activities, including minority recruitment for the Harvard Republican Club and Christian Impact, she certainly felt the weight of adjusting to Harvard life...
...professor of English from Cornell University is currently in Ibadan, Nigeria, researching the literary and cultural effects of globalization in West Africa...
...singular wisdom of the African National Congress (anc) under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. The anc did not go after revenge following the free elections in 1994 but instead built on the positive attributes from the apartheid era, such as a strong economy. Michael E. Aken'Ova Ibadan, Nigeria Getting beyond race will be a long process, but South Africans at all levels are doing it day by day, every day. Progress so far has been stunning, but the final success will take generations. In the meantime, this country is setting the world an example by peacefully building a very...
...says he wrote Ibadan, his second memoir which depicts his political coming-of-age, in a “white heat” of four weeks during his second period of exile because he didn’t know if he would survive the bitter conflict that was intensifying in Nigeria...
Soyinka was born in 1934 at Abeokuta near Ibadan in the western part of Nigeria. At that time, the country was still a British colony and Soyinka was raised in an Anglican mission compound...