Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Obasanjo is the only Nigerian military dictator ever to have relinquished power to an elected civilian government. That was back in 1979, although his elected successors were overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida in 1983, and the military has governed ever since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north...
...morally questionable military entanglements, we contribute heftily to the economies of some quite un-democratic nations in the region with our oil purchases. Oil exploration has also led to other (underpublicized) foreign affairs debacles like the virtual plunder of Ecuador by Texaco and Shell's appalling exploitation of Nigerian oil in cooperation with the despotic government...
...most ambitious new CDs is the Roots' Things Fall Apart (named after the book by the Nigerian Nobel laureate Chinua Achebe). The CD features live instrumentation, lyrics suitable for a poetry slam and a cameo from Erykah Badu. Roots drummer Ahmir hopes, in the future, the more creative wing of performers in hip-hop will form a support network. "There are some people in hip-hop that care about leaving a mark," he says. "There are some of us that look at Innervisions as a benchmark, or Blood on the Tracks or Blue or Purple Rain. Leaving a mark...
...seen the effects of a partial victory before, is in no hurry to sue for peace. Aid agencies say the city is still too hot to begin bringing in badly needed food and medicine. On Saturday night, civilians in Freetown were down to desperate rations: leather and pig food. Nigerian commanders planning an offensive for this week worried about what tactics could possibly contain thousands of drug-addled adolescents. Said a major: "This is a battle between democracy and dementia...
...front lines that four Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered to him. Last week when fighting heated up in Sierra Leone, Barnes didn't hesitate. He jetted from New York City to Paris on Tuesday, then traveled through the Ivory Coast and Mali to Guinea, where he caught a Nigerian helicopter into Freetown on Saturday morning. Battle-hardened though he is, Barnes found the scene harrowing. "The situation is totally chaotic," he says. "Much of the city is under the control of 15- and 16-year-old kids who will shoot at anything." Barnes filed his story from Freetown on a borrowed...