Tunde Akanni
“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble which we still thank as love” Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Undaunted by the lingering severity of the separation from our respective families for months and years for some of us, many of us still defied the freezing cold of New York in the United States in the morning of January 25, 1998. All roads literally led to what used to be known as the Nigeria Corner. The main task for the day was the formal public shaming of the Abacha junta with the renaming of the Nigeria Corner to Kudi Abiola Corner. The corner hosted the Nigerian Embassy in New York.
On that historic day, a number of Nigerian pro-democracy and human rights activists as well as journalists of varied cadres who had managed to escape from the country made effort to converge on that corner for the unveiling of the new identity. It was time to register a major international signal of support against the dictators back home. A few…
Source: Thisday Newspaper
