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Award Wining Writer, Activist and Lawyer, OGAGA
IFOWODO
Neo-Colonial Politics and Popular Struggles
in Africa
Ogaga Ifowodo, is the 1998 award recipient
for the PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom-to-Write awards, winner
of the 1996 Association of Nigerian Authors award for poetry,
an honorary fellow at the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Germany,
and an Honorary Member of PEN American Center. His work
has been collected in several volumes, Maroko’s Blood,
Red Rain and award winning Madiba and has appeared in such
publications as The Guardian and The London Times Review,
as well as in the anthology Voices From the Fringe (1989).
Mr. Ifowodo was arrested by the former Nigerian military
government on November 6, 1997, on his return to Nigeria
from the United Kingdom where he had attended the Commonwealth
Summit in Edinburgh, and where he and other activists appealed
for stronger sanctions against the government of General
Sani Abacha. He was held in solitary confinement with no
access to family, lawyer or doctors for over six months.
We are honored to host him in our class. Selections of his
writings are available on the WebCT site for this course:
(follow the “Publications” links) |
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