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...said that major strides are required in education and development in the country. Ibrahim said that until then she would continue to defend women who are marginalized in Nigerian society...
Hauwa Ibrahim, a Nigerian human-rights attorney, described her efforts to defend Nigerian women under Sharia Law, Islam’s legal system, to a rapt audience at the Radcliffe Gymnasium last night...
Ibrahim vaulted onto the international stage in 2003 after defending and ultimately winning an acquittal for Amina Lawal, a Nigerian woman sentenced to death for committing adultery, said History Professor Caroline Elkins during her introductory remarks...
Recognizing that women were being denied the right to a fair trial, she said she looked to international human rights standards as a model for her legal strategy and then scoured Nigerian and Islamic law for similar statues in order to secure due process and avoid execution by stoning for women accused of adultery...
...novelist Chinua Achebe explains, using the term both figuratively and literally. “You let the story develop. You let the story begin. The story makes all kinds of preparations for its own arrival.”No one knows that truth better than Achebe. The Nigerian author, who currently teaches at Bard College, established himself as Nigeria’s literary ambassador to the Western world with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart,” published in 1959. This past Tuesday, Chinua Achebe came to Harvard to celebrate his novel’s fiftieth...