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...maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes less and less credible with the passage of time. Roy Heath Truro, England Life Savers I was very impressed by your coverage of the Global Health crisis [Nov. 7], especially your article on Dr. Dora Akunyili, director general of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and her work to combat the trade in counterfeit medicines, even at the risk of her own life. It is good for her to be recognized as the Global Health hero she truly is. I appreciate her efforts and those...
...Iweala’s most important inspirations for the novel was China Keitetsi, a child soldier from Uganda who addressed the Harvard African Students Association during Iweala’s junior year, he said. He tried to work on the story in Nigeria the following summer, but he said he found that he needed distance from the country in order to write about it. “Beasts of No Nation” is set in an unnamed African country, but Iweala said he used details of culture, language, and landscape drawn from Nigeria. In order to write the story...
...novel, Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins), that is basking in critical acclaim. The book tells the story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed country in Western Africa, who has been recruited by a unit of guerrilla fighters after watching his own father being slaughtered. The author visited Nigeria, where his mother is currently the finance minister, frequently when he was growing up, and lived there last year, working with refugees. We chatted with Iweala by phone...
...anywhere from 9 to 12. The landscape of the book is Nigeria, but the country is not Nigeria. The country is specifically unnamed. He's supposed to be from a West African country...
...CHRIS HONDROS / GETTY POLIO: After a year-long hiatus, children in Nigeria are once again getting oral vaccines...