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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)
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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) (1996) (edit title/settings)

by Wole Soyinka (Author) (edit contributors)

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The events that led up to dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution on November 10, 1995, mark Nigeria's decline from a post-colonial success story to its current military dictatorship. Few writers have been more outspoken in decrying and lamenting this decline than Nobel Prize laureate and... read more

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I am obliged to concede that the overall tenor of my remarks could be easily construed as a requiem for what we know as the nation of Nigeria, so let me caution at the beginning that this is not my intention.

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  1. Wole Soyinka (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0195105575
Page Count: 176

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