Witchcraft and politics
The BBC World Service reports on a serious issue in Nigeria with a lead that seems to marginalize the protest. That is unfortunate.How well could your students identify the cleavages that divide Nigerians? How well could they rank those cleavages in terms of their political impacts? What would they find if they looked for independent analysis of the reasons for Igbo alienation?
Women threaten to curse Nigerians
"A group of Nigerian women says it will place a curse on the country's men if the government fails to free an Igbo separatist leader held for treason...
"Mr Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (Massob), was arrested in October 2005 after he announced that the Igbo people of south-eastern Nigeria would launch a renewed secession bid...
"Recently, Nigerian courts freed two Yoruba separatist leaders and granted bail to Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, the most prominent rebel leader from the Niger Delta.
"Like Mr Uwazuruike, they had all been charged with treason..."
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:34 AM
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