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Daughter of the imprisoned president-elect of Nigeria and his recently-assassinated wife. Abiola speaks at university, local and state legislature meetings about the situation in her home country whenever the organizations have related resolutions pending. At Harvard, that means urging the University to divest from companies such as Shell Oil that support the regime in Nigeria...
Perhaps the most moving call for international activism comes from Hafsat O. Abiola '96-'97, the director of the Harvard Committee on Nigeria...
...Either we do this today or in the future we will have a country that doesn't have any law and order, which is what Nigeria is becoming now," she says...
Born in East Nigeria in 1930, Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart, has sold more then 8 million copies. He has authored or edited more than 18 books...
...writing has earned him Nigeria's highest prize for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Order of Merit. He will be given a Doctorate of Letters today...