Word: nigerianism
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...away, two Levantine sorts whisper to one another—one, a grey-bearded man wearing a maroon beret, puts his palms on either cheek of his lady companion, and then swoops in to kiss her savagely. Then, just down the way, a very pale white woman appears in Nigerian garb that she has been saving for just the proper occasion: an ankle-long, garish purple gown with green-glimmering sequins. She is emaciated—presumably by choice, not because (like a good many of the Africans she studies) she lacks food—and she is stumbling down...
...medications sold there were deficient in one way or another. Some contained less of the active ingredient than was specified on the label. Others were past their expiration date. Some were filled with inert lactose or powdered chalk. Still others were poison. In 1990 more than 100 Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery in the city of Enugu. Akunyili's sister Vivian, a diabetic, died in 1988, a victim of fake insulin...
Kabiti Ishaya was 13 when she was offered the chance to leave her small Nigerian village of Biliru and move in with relatives in Lagos so she could go to school. But the dream turned into a nightmare when her uncle raped her. She fled back to the village, where things got even worse: Ishaya, now 24, tested positive for HIV, and when she went public with the diagnosis, all hell broke loose. "Everywhere I went," she says, "fingers were being pointed at me. There was a day I was walking to the marketplace, and the entire street was deserted...
...DIED. STELLA OBASANJO, 59, wife of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo; after cosmetic surgery at a Spanish clinic; in Marbella. The flamboyant first lady reportedly had an operation to reduce her body fat but died following complications that are now being investigated. Her death occurred just a few hours after a domestic plane crash claimed 117 victims, leading the President to declare a national day of mourning...
...asking for your mind because your thinking about Africa has to change before you can help Africans. The recent outpouring of humanitarian concern for Africa has been touching, but also a bit disturbing. As Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele wrote, “All too often, Africans see themselves mirrored in the eyes of the West—of those rich former colonial powers who like to regard Africans only as victims. And, all too often, Africans become the distorted images reflected in these mirrors...