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...doesn't have to pretend to be resolute. Born Helen Folasade Adu in Ibadan, Nigeria, the daughter of a white English nurse and a Nigerian teacher, she's been overcoming obstacles - cultural and artistic - virtually her entire life. Sade says she has always felt "accepted," but when she was 11 and living in England, she recalls being surrounded by white schoolboys and assailed with taunts such as, "Go black home, you'll be all white in the morning...
...first year I taught a course where I taught Nigerian plays and I'm a white person who's never been to Africa," Bosch says. "Someone else who's been to Africa might have been able to present the material better...
Martyrdom is hard to come across in a free society: one might find lots of lawyers, but not that many martyrs. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent Nigerian author, struggled against an abusive system of laws and paid with his life for his resistance. He recognized that the presence of the Royal Dutch/Shell Conglomerate in his homeland, the Ogoni province of Nigeria, was leaving his people economically strangulated and politically marginalized...
From 1993 to 1995, he focused his attention on forcing Shell to pay the Ogoni people compensation for the pollution they caused and their negligence of Ogoni Society. He decried abuses in political power and blamed Shell for abetting an oppressive Nigerian regime, including supplying them with arms...
...prominent leaders of the Ogoni, Saro-Wiwa was tried by "special tribunal"--by all accounts a sham of justice where most of the witnesses were paid to testify falsely--and hanged for murder. The trial drew heavy international criticism and was widely viewed as an attempt by the Nigerian government, at the request of Shell, to eliminate one of the most prominent activists fighting for social and economic justice...