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CHINEDUM ONWUCHEKWA Nsukka, Nigeria...
...citizens should judge a President by evaluating what he has done in the past and also how he perceives the future. I admire a President who would oust a notorious dictator - not because voters approved of it but because it was a worthy act. I admire Bush. Chinedum Onwuchekwa Nsukka, Nigeria Bush is praised for being brave and decisive, but why, when bravery and snap decisions based on trumped-up evidence have proved disastrously wrong? Neither the U.S., in its long-term interests, nor the world can afford another four years of Bush and his unilateralism. Michael Kromberg Kongsberg, Norway...
Lawal received his B.A. from the University of Nigeria at Nsukka in 1966 in Fine Arts. He earned his MA and Ph.D. at Indiana University...
...textile mill was bombed five times during the war, and its machinery was looted, vandalized and scattered; yet its technicians managed to put it back into operation in five months. Nigerian army engineers estimated that it would take a year to rebuild the badly damaged waterworks at Nsukka; Ibo engineers did it in three weeks. The state abounds with similar tales. As the American manager of the Aba mill, a North Carolinian named W.A. Way, puts it: "Ain't no power on earth gonna hold these people back...
...truth seemed to be that the fighting had moved some 15 or 20 miles beyond Nsukka deeper into Biafra, and that the federal troops had simply moved through the city without bothering at first to garrison it. It was probably largely deserted anyway, since thousands of Nsukkans had fled the federal attack in trucks, taxis and mammy wagons, joined in the first retreat by large numbers of Biafra's inexperienced soldiers. The Biafran army consisted at secession of about 7,000 men, only 2,500 of them trained in the federal army-and those chiefly in supporting service roles...