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...book, “Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion,” Matory posits ideas that challenge many of the popularly-held Western conceptions of gender. For instance, he shows that the Yoruba women of southwest Nigeria are simultaneously wives and husbands...
...peace." I agree with Sharon 's dismissal of Abbas' efforts to rein in the militants. There shouldn't be any compromising of the safety of Israeli citizens. Sharon is dealing with not just the Palestinian Authority but also radical terrorist organizations. Ahunwa L. Kelechi Jos, Nigeria A Case for Press Freedom While the U.S. makes efforts to establish democracy and freedom throughout the world, American government officials sometimes lose sight of what is happening in their own country. I feel that Time's Matthew Cooper [May 23] and New York Times reporter Judith Miller have done their job as journalists...
...evidence that Taylor "and others" were behind a January assassination attempt on Guinean President Lansana Conte. In addition, he said, Taylor had funneled money from al-Qaeda to a man who later announced his candidacy for Liberia's presidency. Through a spokesman, Taylor, who now lives in Nigeria, denied the allegations. The Sierra Leone court, Western governments and human-rights groups are cranking up pressure on Nigeria to hand Taylor, who faces 17 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the brutal conflict in Sierra Leone, over to the court for prosecution. But Nigerian President...
...singular wisdom of the African National Congress (anc) under the leadership of Nelson Mandela. The anc did not go after revenge following the free elections in 1994 but instead built on the positive attributes from the apartheid era, such as a strong economy. Michael E. Aken'Ova Ibadan, Nigeria Getting beyond race will be a long process, but South Africans at all levels are doing it day by day, every day. Progress so far has been stunning, but the final success will take generations. In the meantime, this country is setting the world an example by peacefully building a very...
...safety, security, a little peace. There's a potent moment in Marco Tullio Giordana's Once You're Born -the Italian film that shares the Lumiere theater with Sith today -when a boat load of the dispossessed each give, in closeup, their name and home country. Montenegro, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bosnia, Sudan... The list of trouble spots could be endless; the wretched refuse numbers in the tens of millions; each face on that boat of illegal immigrants is a map of human misery and resolve. They wouldn't be there if they didn't think they could survive and thrive...