Word: nigerians
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...Spirits: Black Expression in the Diaspora.” The dizzying calendar features black art not only from all over the world, but also from across the spectrum of creative work. The Food Festival on Saturday from 5-7 p.m. in Ticknor Lounge will feature dishes prepared by the Nigerian Student Association and the Native Americans at Harvard College, among others. As the BAF co-chair Ofole U. Mgbako ’08 explains, BAF seeks to educate and remind students that “the history of black culture is in no way monolithic….Look...
...djembe playing. The djembe is kind of an hourglass-shaped drum; it has goatskin on the top, and there’s an iron ring on the rim. It has a really distinctive, sharp sound. I’d never seen djembe playing. I’d only seen Nigerian drumming. So I bought a djembe from him, and he gave me a few lessons. It’s an amazing instrument because it’s deceptively complex. You have three notes only, a bass note, a tone note, and a slap. But with those three notes, you have...
...years have passed since Nigerian soldiers hanged activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others after protests targeting Shell's operations turned violent. Today, the company?which has long maintained that pollution from its oil operations in the Delta is due largely to sabotage?is still struggling to regain the locals' trust. Shell has a new strategy. After seeing millions of dollars from its contributions to development funds vanish in the hands of corrupt officials, Shell last month signed a four-year contract with village leaders that puts $7.7 million at their direct disposal. There is no shortage of worthy causes...
...blood and each drop of sweat flying here and there. I am hearing the bird flapping their wing as they are leaving all the tree,” Iweala read. “It is sounding like thunder.” Born in America, Iweala comes from a Nigerian family. The novel is the product of his senior creative-writing thesis, which he completed under the tutelage of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English Language and Literature Jamaica Kincaid. “I knew right away that it was something that should be read by as many...
...these Amnesty International Human Rights Watch-UN reports on children in conflict and child combatants. I read child psychology textbooks, to look at development, and how violence affects development, and how children perceive death, and punishment and reward. Additionally, I talked with [my own] family members and other Nigerians about the Nigerian civil war and their experience back in the '60s, dealing with how violence affects the way you live, and what it does to your community...