Word: secessionism
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No African can be happy at the press reports of mounting starvation in secessionist Biafra. The fact of secession and the consequent human casualities represent a permanent tragedy for Africa. Newspaper advertisements carrying hungry African babies whose survival depends largely on the outcome of a march-of-dimes-type crusade...
Even wilder is an untitled E. E. Cummings poem published in a 1922 issue of Secession: life hurl my
In Lagos, Major General Yakubu Gowon, leader of the federal government, emphasized that the Kampala peace talks were one thing, peace quite another. "My conscience is clear, as God is my judge," Gowon assured reporters. "Ceasefire? We Nigerians have really big hearts, but the peace talks have nothing to do...
For all the literary treasures buried in the little magazines, the Kraus editors found them singularly hard to locate. Few libraries had subscribed to them or stocked them. Often, the publishers found some issues in one place, the rest scattered in several others. One problem was that the magazines, entirely...
Africa's most talked about playwright is Nigerian Wole Soyinka, 33, who has languished in jail since August on charges that he aided the Biafran secession. His voice is being heard loud and clear off Broadway. Two Soyinka one-acters were produced in November, and now the skillful and...