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The Open Sore of a Continent (Magill’s Literary Annual 1997)

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On June 12, 1993, the people of Nigeria, showing great courage, discipline, and restraint, voted to reject the puppet candidate of the outgoing military dictator General Ibrahim Babangida and to elect as president the democratic Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, candidate of the Social Democratic Party. Although he did not vote in that election, Wole Soyinka calls it a national triumph, a triumph of the collective will to freedom against brutal repression by a succession of thuggish military despots. On June 23, Babangida annulled the election, and on June 27, the military, under the...

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