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...later this month. The U.S. shares the A.N.C.'s goal of a multiparty democracy in South Africa but objects to its violent tactics and Communist connections. Last week the Secretary departed on an eight-day trip to six black African countries that are considered U.S. allies -- Senegal, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Liberia -- but had no plans to meet with Tambo or visit South Africa during his journey. Said Shultz: "Right now there doesn't seem to be any way to take a fruitful initiative there...
...held since 1962. Planning Minister Hisham Nazer, a longtime Yamani rival, was named to take his place until a permanent new oil minister is named. Nazer's first official act was to call for an emergency meeting of the pricing committee of OPEC, whose 13 members include Nigeria, Venezuela and Indonesia, as well as seven Arab countries. The avowed purpose of the meeting, which is expected to be held later this week, is to find ways to push up prices, which fell under Yamani's policy of pumping unlimited quantities...
This troubled area was Soyinka's birthright. His parents, members of the Yoruba tribe in southwestern Nigeria, were also Christians and thus at some remove from the native life around them. In his memoir Ake: The Years of Childhood (1981), Soyinka portrays the divided realms of his early impressions: the beliefs handed down by his mother and father vs. the animism of village rituals, particularly the tradition of the egungun, the ancestral spirits who can be summoned whenever their masks are displayed at local festivals. For a time, the boy had the best of both worlds: the sensuous, + imaginative life...
...returned to Nigeria in 1960, the same year his homeland gained independence from British colonial rule. Soyinka's adult career coincides almost exactly with the brushfire of nationalism that swept across Africa, a phenomenon that filled his writings with bursts of hope and despair. He eloquently expressed the ideals of black nationalism and spoke out harshly whenever they seemed in danger of being compromised or betrayed. In 1967 he was arrested by the Nigerian government, charged with assisting the Biafran rebels in their struggle for a separate state and held for 22 months. Soyinka later recounted this ordeal...
...literary forms (all of Soyinka's work is written in English), some African critics have accused him of shunning his ethnic origins. Such complaints may continue, but the Nobel Prize is likely to make Soyinka an even more formidable spokesman on his continent. The day after it was announced, Nigeria awarded him its highest national honor...