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Wole Soyinka, 71, was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. The author of some 20 plays, seven novels and several collections of poetry, he has also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn. Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good...
...increased revenue allocation from the central government, have done little for their people? The militia guns may someday be turned against the political élite. The 2007 elections are fast approaching. Niran Adetoro Ijebu-ode, Nigeria While reading your report about Nigeria, I was wondering whom to blame. If Nigerians who live in Europe or the U.S. don't help their country, nothing will change. Oil companies will never stop exploiting their sources unless the U.N. puts an end to the catastrophe that Nigerians face. Giannis Piliouras Athens time once again showed its mastery of in-depth and objective journalism...
...economic growth and newfound wealth. It's no secret that there are drug-fueled raves on the outskirts of Delhi, and just last week, Indian authorities seized 200 kilograms of cocaine from a South African ship in a Bombay port. Authorities and journalists alike point fingers at India's Nigerian community, who they claim arrive on easily obtainable student visas before beginning to deal cocaine and heroin to the wealthy. In the capital, four cocaine busts have been made this year - after nine busts in the whole of 2005. But the number of arrests may soon grow in the wake...
...neglect of the Niger delta by successive Nigerian governments is criminal, but the truth is that many other parts of the country have also suffered that same fate. Outside of a few metropolitan cities like Lagos, Abuja and Kano, Nigeria is a vast expanse of criminal neglect. The problems of the Niger Delta cannot be solved in isolation but must be addressed with all the other troubles plaguing Nigeria. And resorting to violence will only create more problems and solve none. Emmanuel Majebi Lagos...
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