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Taziona G. Chaponda 97, a member of the Harvard African Student Association, urged the crowd to continue Saro-Wiwa's fight for human rights in Nigeria. After the vigil, some who attended signed petitions to President Clinton, Harvard and Shell...
More than 100 people, including human rights activists and the daughter of the elected president of Nigeria, gathered at a candle-lit vigil last night for Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian environmentalist and activist executed last Friday...
David Stephen 96, the coordinator of the Kenya Nigeria Campaign for Amnesty International, said "Ken's words were so moving, so strong, that indeed he did get a response from the Nigeria government one of fear, one of a dictatorship desperate to hold on to a mandate it never...
Also attending the vigil on the steps of Widener library was Omo Omoruyi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, who initiated Nigeria's Democratic transtion program. "[Saro Wiwa] was my classmate; bright, intelligent, a man of peace," Omoruvi said. "His death should not have been the was it was, but he is gone...
...When Nelson Mandela called Nigeria's hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa and eight fellow activists 'a heinous act' last weekend, he was sounding a call rarely heard in African politics," reports TIME's Andrew Purvis. Historically, few African leaders have taken it upon themselves to censure the reprehensible behavior of other heads of state. Mandela, however, has begun to match words with action. On his urging, Nigeria was suspended from a New Zealand Commonwealth meeting where the South African leader made the statement. Tuesday, South Africa's soccer federation barred Nigeria's team from playing in South Africa, and calls...