Word: nigerians
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...case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave trade. The estimated cost: $130 trillion in loss of people and production potential over the centuries. The estimated chance of success: zero...
Last year's winner of Britain's esteemed Booker Prize, THE FAMISHED ROAD (Doubleday; $22.50), is a long, winding allegorical novel that draws no line between fact and fantasy. The Nigerian-born, London-based Ben Okri explores the spiritual interior of an African nation struggling to reconcile its traditions with modern dislocations. Sorcerers, ghosts and two-legged dogs mingle with villagers and politicians in this hallucinatory narrative that reconnects Nigeria to its origins. Okri's uncompromising vision and verbal energy carry him swiftly through 500 pages. The reader too moves along, although a little less magic and a bit more...
...first semester at Harvard, he auditionedfor the Mikado and got the title role.Since then he has performed in every Gilbert andSullivan show. He has also worked on the lightingcrew for three shows and directed a Nigerian play.As president of the Harvard African StudentsAssociation, he brought African guests to Harvardand organized an Africa Week, with speakers,music, food, and dances. He told African folktalesat Cultural Rhythms. (He did not learn the talefrom an elder back home during a smoky ritual,though. "I cheated," he says. "I found a book offolktales in narrative form in the stacks ofWidener...
...North House production of Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, a Nigerian comedy by Ola Rotimi, is generally amusing but suffers from a weak backup cast and unassertive direction...
Directed by Anton Quist, Our Husband, a slapstick comedy set in Nigeria, revolves around Rahman Taslim Lejoka-Brown. In keeping with Nigerian custom, which allows a man to have as many wives as he can handle, Lejoka-Brown has two--well, three actually, but Liza, who lives in America, thinks she is the only one. Her arrival in Nigeria provides the spark for comical confusion, as Lejoka-Brown struggles to maintain his home and political career...