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Walter Carrington '52, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, will be making a return to Harvard as one of 10 resident fellows at the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research for the 1997-98 year...
Carrington has been an instrumental part of the Clinton administration's efforts to promote democracy in Nigeria, according to a news release. His project at the institute will focus on the erosion of human rights, democratic culture and economic performance under military rule in Nigeria--Africa's largest and potentially richest country...
DIED. AMOS TUTUOLA, 77, Nigerian novelist who foraged into Yoruba folklore for his grisly tales; in Ibadan, Nigeria. In prose unfettered by grammatical conventions, Tutuola depicted mythic odysseys. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard, a wino travels to the afterworld and battles a horned monster to appease his hellish thirst...
Since the 1960s, he has helped the populations of Nigeria, India, Thailand, Zaire and the United States combat communicable disease. Eradicating smallpox and coordinating relief for local populations have been two of his lifelong professional goals...
Over the course of the year, campus activists criticized the Corporation Committee for Shareholder Responsibility for failing to recommend divestment from corporations that do business in Nigeria and Burma, countries with known track records of human rights abuses...