Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three days last week, rampaging mobs of gunmen, free-lance bandits and youths rioted in the streets, burning tires, looting and attacking units of U.S. and other United Task Force troops sent there to keep the peace. Five American Marines and at least two Nigerian servicemen were wounded, and an estimated dozen Somalis were killed...
Ernest B. Attah '66, who came to Harvard as a Nigerian international student the following fall, says AAAAS had to adopt creative membership policies to meet University guidelines for student groups...
...ensures that we need never -- in the bathtub, on a mountaintop, even at our desks -- be without the clangor of the world. White noise becomes the aural equivalent of the clash of images, the nonstop blast of fragments that increasingly agitates our minds. As Ben Okri, the young Nigerian novelist, puts it, "When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument...
...AWAY by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Carla Golembe (Little, Brown; $15.95). According to an ancient Nigerian tale, the sky was once so close to the earth that folks could take a bite. It was delicious. But people grew self-indulgent and wasteful, and the sky decided to seek revenge. This apt retelling is abetted by brilliant illustrations that seem to radiate their own heat and light...
Case in point: Monrovia, Liberia, where Purvis arrived a month ago on a chartered flight just after rebels started shelling the airport runway to impede Nigerian troops. He spent a scary night holed up in a dilapidated beachfront hotel, he says, "listening to artillery fire mingled with the sound of crashing waves as I filed a story on a laptop computer." On his way out the next day, three Liberian "security" officials detained Purvis in a small room at the airport and shook him down for a $60 bribe. It was pay or stay. "They each got $20, which...