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While the purpose of Achebe’s visit was to celebrate his literary career, he also touched on what he termed “the ugliness of politics” in Nigeria...
...can’t we get our act together?” he asked about the Nigerian government. “Why can’t Nigeria do something for the people...
...teen, she spent her summers traveling to Ghana, Nigeria and Egypt, among other places. Attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School and a Massachusetts boarding school before earning her bachelor's at Stanford and later a law degree from the University of Michigan...
Despite the speed of the oil boom, the price crash has jolted OPEC countries, which appear to have assumed that high prices were here to stay. Nigeria and Iran have both set their national budgets according to prices of about $80 a barrel, and Qatar's expectation has been $90 a barrel. "Producers very quickly got used to $100-plus prices," says Lee. "They thought of it as normal and justified. They seem to have very short memories...
...gaelscoileanna will pit Ireland's constitutional vow to preserve its "native" language against the obligation as a modern country to integrate its increasing immigrant population. While Walsh and hundreds of thousands of other Irish were making their way home, other, newer migration paths were being cut from China, Nigeria, Poland and many other countries. Between the late 1980s and today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds of reasons, but realistically it would rarely be the first choice for newly arrived immigrants," says Colette Kavanagh...