Word: nigerianism
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...action at ground zero. A few days later, he was criticized for sounding like Dirty Harry channeling Winston Churchill--but his vow to take bin Laden "dead or alive" had an appealing clarity. And last week an impromptu Bush put the war in perspective after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that "we're on the hunt" and we're "going to chase them down," then advised impatient Americans to get over their need for "instant gratification...
...NIGERIA Tit for Tat Nigerian soldiers gunned down at least 130 people, including women and children, before President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered them to stop. The killings were to avenge the hacking to death of 19 soldiers sent into Makurdi, capital of the central state of Benue, to keep warring Tiv and Jukun tribes apart...
...Nigerian journalist Waziri O. Adio warned a room of students and writers last night at the Kennedy School of Government that there can be no true democracy in Africa unless it is accompanied by freedom of the press...
...world that is dominated by Western civilization and thought. It is a pity that this treasure trove is being plundered by its own keepers. While it is sad, how can we really blame poverty-stricken subsistence farmers in an oil-rich economy for plundering the earth if Nigerian leaders leave a legacy of thoughtless actions? EDOZIE N. UMEH Lagos...
...archives of traditional Afghan folk songs at Kabul Radio, for example, are being destroyed. The sounds of silence, after all, are more reassuring to many governments than voices that have the power to move, to persuade and to protest. In the Sudan, musicians cannot perform after dark; in a Nigerian state where Islamic law is followed, a musician was recently imprisoned for singing. "In much of the Third World, people cannot read or write," says Marie Korpe, executive director of Freemuse, a group in Denmark that monitors music censorship. "People listen to the radio, to songs. It is music that...