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...crossover potential of the new aural hybrids is obvious on Mickey Hart's Planet Drum, a dazzling display of rhythmic virtuosity performed by the Grateful Dead drummer and a super group of percussionists from Nigeria, Brazil and India. Planet Drum, which has been No. 1 on the Billboard World Music chart for the past nine weeks, is a rollicking time machine, at once archaic and up-to-the-second, primal and technologically smart. In songs like Udu Chant, Temple Caves and Dance of the Hunter's Fire, the players coax a torrent of tattoos and flowing rhythms from a battery...
...veto that the "perm five" possess. Opponents of that idea fear that revising the Charter would lift the lid of Pandora's box: the Third World would demand its own place on the Security Council in the form of seats for three regional powers -- India, Brazil and Nigeria. Otherwise, power in the council would be weighted against the poorer nations of the world...
Those ties helped, since it was largely the determination of the Africans that won him the job. Last June the Organization of African Unity, meeting in Nigeria, agreed to go all out to demand its turn in power and drew up a list of six candidates, all except Ghali from sub-Saharan nations. He was added almost by chance, to meet France's demand for a French-speaking candidate. In drawing up the list, President Mobutu of Zaire looked about the room, fixed his eye on Ghali and declared, "Vous!" China quickly pledged its support for an African, and France...
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...
...hardly alone. The shutdown also froze some $400 million of deposits belonging to Beijing-controlled companies, giving China a bitter taste of the risks of capitalism. In Egypt the government fired the board of the country's B.C.C.I. affiliate and sought to recover $400 million in frozen assets. In Nigeria officials said they would provide $16 million to cover now worthless letters of credit from B.C.C.I. The shutdown even torpedoed shipping around the world. The Wall Street Journal reported that $85 million worth of freight sat stranded on some 1,000 ships because the purchasers could not use credit that...