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...years later, I have just cosponsored an order before the Cambridge City Council requesting the city to decline any investment related to Shell Oil, which today underwrites the oppressive regime of Gen. Sani Abacha in Nigeria, where the democratically elected President Moshood K. Abiola has been imprisoned and his wife Kudirat murdered. Their daughter (Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97) has asked that we join her in a human-rights campaign. I am prepared...
Soyinka is in exile from Nigeria, and was recently charged with trea...
...continued to write while in prison on books smuggled in to him, on cigarette packs and on toilet paper. On these notes he based several publications, including The Man Died (1972) which was banned in Nigeria...
...council has to reform itself. To begin with, it must cut its size so that chaos and frivolity do not dominate its full council meetings. Also, it must not pass resolutions on everything it can--from human rights in Nigeria to fried dough. Rather, it must carefully think about the limits of its spheres of influence. As Dean Lewis wrote, "[The council] works least well when it legislates without consultation or deep thought...
CHARGED. WOLE SOYINKA, 62, Nigerian exile and the 1986 Nobel laureate for literature; with treason by his country's military dictatorship; near Lagos, Nigeria. The regime claims that Soyinka and 11 other dissidents were involved in a series of bombings of army sites. Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994 and resides in various Western countries...