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...Africa never ceases to amaze." So wrote V.S. Naipaul in A Bend in the River, and last week, true to the novelist's assessment, Africa amazed again. As recently as a fortnight ago, Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 58, was being hailed as the enlightened leader of black Africa's most populous and, in many ways, most promising democracy. Several days later, he was under detention in Lagos, while Major General Mohammed Buhari, 41, organizer of a coup that deposed Shagari, was proclaiming to his countrymen that the armed forces had saved the nation from "total collapse...
...Nigeria's Radio Lagos was brief and enigmatic. Claiming to speak on behalf of the country's armed forces, Brigadier General Sana Abacha of the Nigerian army declared that he and his colleagues had "decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government" of President Shehu Shagari, 58. "This task," said Abacha, "has just been completed." The general then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria's 25.4 million voters re-elected...
Five days later the last votes had been tallied and officials announced that President Shehu Shagari, 58, had been overwhelmingly re-elected as leader of the world's fourth largest democracy (after India, the U.S. and Japan). Shagari, a soft-spoken Muslim who writes poetry in Hausa, the language of the north, won more than 12 million votes, or 47% of the total. He satisfied a second requirement, designed to ensure broad national support, by garnering 25% of the vote in 16 of the country's 19 states...
...Washington's best envoys to the kingdom, "a first-rate professional diplomat who always dealt with us honestly and intelligently." Beneath his softspoken, scholarly demeanor, Pickering can be personable and witty. Indeed, he established an unusual rapport both with Jordan's King Hussein and with Nigerian President Shehu Shagari...
...vigor of the country's political system is apparent in the enthusiasm with which six parties have already embarked on a campaign for national elections in August. Nigeria's infant democracy, however, faces a major test as President Shehu Shagari tries to renew his mandate at a time when the country struggles with a deepening economic crisis prompted by the decline in oil revenues. The seriousness of the situation became evident in January when the government expelled more than a million foreign workers, mostly Ghanaians, in order to ease growing unemployment among Nigerians...