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...only a high point in his career and for Unplugged, it was also noteworthy for marking the comeback of folk sounds in pop. The musically eclectic Seal managed to draw from disparate strains of pop and weave them into a single folksy tapestry. Born in London to Nigerian parents, Seal admits that he began singing so his 3distant2 father would notice him. With his Unplugged show, Seal should win the ear of many more adults...
...examples, Gilchrist cites the Pepsi debate, as well as a council resolution condemning Harvard's investments in Shell Oil. The council objected to the Shell holdings because the corporation's investments support a Nigerian government which has committed numerous human rights abuses...
...pregnant. Overly-virile boy pledges undying love to her, which she cautiously reciprocates. Both sets of parents are horrified to no end. They want--at all costs--to put a stop to this unwholesome union. The Black Community and Student Theater's production of "Wedlock of the Gods," a Nigerian play by Nwazulu Sofola, treads very, very familiar ground in its dealings with a passionate relationship that is condemned by deeply rooted, traditional standards of moral conduct. But for those not familiar with West African culture, the show is enlightening and entertaining...
...else can be made of Farrakhan's sucking up to Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial...
...ADMIRERS BACK IN NIGERIA, Olushina Adekanbi, 36, was revered as the "King of New York." U.S. law-enforcement officials were less adulatory. They knew the dapper Nigerian as a man of more than two dozen aliases who allegedly ran the largest ring of credit-card thieves in the U.S. Authorities busted Adekanbi last September on credit-fraud charges. Then last week, after a five-month investigation, they brought some 200 counts against the still-jailed Adekanbi and seven other Nigerians, including Adekanbi's wife Mary. The quondam king could go to prison for up to 25 years. "We've broken...