Mko abiola wife
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The Bashorun MKO Abiola Lecture was established in 1992 with a generous grant from the late Bashorun M K O Abiola. This award is given to a senior African scholar, to present a lecture at the ASA Annual Meeting. Selections are made by the ASA Board of Directors.
If you wish to support the Abiola Lecture with a donation, you can do so here by selecting the lecture fund.
Abiola Lecture award recipients:
2016
Achille Mbembe, Knowledge Futures and the State of the Humanities
2015
Salikoko S. Mufwene, Africa and Globalization from a Linguistic Perspective
2014
Francis Abiola Irele, African Studies as Discipline and Vocation
2013
Salah Hassan, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Is ‘Afropolitan’ the Answer?
2012
Ama Ata Aidoo, Clapping with one Hand, or a Fundamentally Flawed Management of Post-Colonial African Public Spaces
2011
Sylvia Tamale, Whose Democracy are we Talking About? Non-Conforming Sexualities as a Metaphor for African Dictatorships
2010
Bereket Habte Selassie, Democracy and Peace in the Age of Globalization: Old Problems, New Challeng
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Democracy and the economic statecraft of Bashorun Abiola
Friday 12 June was Democracy Day. It provided occasion for sober reflection on where we are as a country; whence we came and where we are heading. Aso Villa made all the right noises. The chattering classes did their part. I was part of a National Democracy Dialogue that was hosted by an organisation known as The Consultative Front and jointly anchored by my friends Professor Antony Kila and Veteran Che Olawale Ogunniyi. Several distinguished personalities participated in the dialogue, including Hafsat Abiola-Costello. The programme was broadcast live on NTA, Channels and Ben TV.
At the heart of the debate was the person of the late Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola, presumed winner of the 1993 presidential elections. We all shared the sentiments that, in truncating his mandate, Abiola and the Yoruba West were treated unfairly and unjustly by the military junta headed at the time by General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. We all agreed that it was probably the freest election in our tortuous political history. And the electorate w
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Remembering the ‘Real’ MKO Abiola
Yemi Ogunbiyi
The immediate impulse to the writing of this piece came from a recent conversation with my 21-year old daughter, Oreoluwa. Following the honour bestowed on MKO Abiola by President Buhari and the re-focused attention on Abiola’s legacy, Oreoluwa, who, by the way, read Politics and Philosophy at Cambridge and was only one year old when MKO was killed, called me to find out more about him. Here is how she put it: ‘Dad, I know all about June 12 and how Chief Abiola was denied the presidency and later died in prison; but what kind of man was he?
Oreoluwa’s question set me thinking and it suddenly dawned on me that many younger Nigerians, certainly the twenty-‘somethings’ and even thirty-year olds may just have only a vague memory of MKO Abiola or none at all, let alone knowing who the ‘real’ MKO Abiola was! Because of Oreoluwa and others of her age, I have decided to reproduce in full, the first chapter of the Book, Legend of our Time: The Thoughts of MKO Abiola, which is a published collection of Abiola’s key Speec
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