Even the most implacable critic of President Buhari would have to concede that Boko Haram’s capacity to “shoot, slaughter and kill”—as its avowed means of establishing Allah’s loving and peaceful …
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Ogaga Ifowodo
Ogaga Ifowodo
Ogaga Ifowodo, PhD., is a college professor, poet and author of The Oil Lamp, Madiba, Homeland and History, Trauma, and Healing in Postcolonial Narratives. A popular columnist, lawyer, activist, and frontline member of the Civil Liberties Organisation during Nigeria’s worst military years, he was detained in the late 1990s by the dictator Sani Abacha. Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo received his MFA and PhD. from Cornell University.
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In the decade and a half since Chief Bola Ige was murdered while serving as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Nigerian public has gone from the tortured feelings of …