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...grain and second-hand clothes market, for example, was still smoldering. Yusuf Muhammed Fikin, 58, a market stall owner, picked through the hot rubble. "I got this business from my grandfather, some 30 years ago. I owned 41 sheds, and we didn't get anything out, not even one kobo [a cent]. We lost about 6 million naira [$50,000]. All was burned." There is a police station directly adjacent to Fikin's market, but no police officers responded until 12 hours after it had been set ablaze...
...Mollie M. Kirk ’07, this performance pairs two very different, but complementary plays (“The Man Who…” written by Peter Brook and Marie Helen Estienne and “The Man Who Turned Into a Stick” by Kobo Abe) for a unified and touching effect. Although initially slow-paced, the strong performances by the small five-person cast, marked by its versatility and physicality, overcome this early slow start...
...beach at Badagry, not far from Lagos, Nigeria, which was an important slave-trading port, a place where manacles and other purported relics of the commerce in human beings are on display. The proprietor, an aging woman, told some Nigerian friends of mine that she would charge them 50 kobo (about $1) to examine the artifacts. You, she said, pointing to me, pay two naira (about $4). I protested that if the chains were indeed genuine, which I doubted, they might have been used to bind one of my ancestors; therefore, I didn't understand why I should pay four...
...months later, when an immigration judge ruled on Randall's case, he also found her excludable. Like Mexican Novelist Carlos Fuentes and Japanese Novelist Kobo Abe, Randall had fallen afoul of the McCarran-Walter Act, a McCarthy-era law best known for its three provisions that bar entry to the U.S. for Communists and subversives, including anyone deemed to have advocated Communist ideas. Although the Government regularly grants waivers, critics say the law is still used to exclude those who merely hold unpopular ideas or who question U.S. foreign policy. Says Burt Neuborne, a New York University law professor: "McCarran...
...with no extreme political opinions, must give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino...