Word: nigerians
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Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian poet and political dissident Wole Soyinka delivered the second of three lectures before a crowd of about 200 at Emerson Hall yesterday...
Soyinka was arrested in 1967 on charges of conspiring with rebels early in the Nigerian civil war and was held in solitary confinement for more than two years...
Protesters disrupted Soyinka's first speech in the series Tuesday. Yesterday, Soyinka said the protesters were paid agents of the Nigerian government, registered with the U.S. State Department...
Gates harshly criticized the Nigerian dictatorship. "It's terrible that the government has illegally accused him of treason," Gates said. "We all look forward to the day when the Nigerian government has toppled...
CHARGED. WOLE SOYINKA, 62, Nigerian exile and the 1986 Nobel laureate for literature; with treason by his country's military dictatorship; near Lagos, Nigeria. The regime claims that Soyinka and 11 other dissidents were involved in a series of bombings of army sites. Soyinka fled Nigeria in 1994 and resides in various Western countries...