Nigeria Quotes
His foundation is trying to improve development and health in much of the world and he was remarking on how difficult it is if the local government is not attuned to it and supportive.
Muslims had engaged in violent demonstrations to insist on more Sharia law and the curtailment of behavior that the Muslim Mullahs determined to be contrary to Sharia and Islam. In Nigeria Muslim violence and intimidation had at the time already caused one of the Nigerian states to adopt Sharia instead of civil law. Many Muslims continued the violence in order to spread the adoption of Islamic law. In most counties, there were threats of law enforcement crackdowns to curtail the Muslim violence and attacks on Christians and other religions. In Nigeria however, the Christians under Akinola’s leadership made this not so subtle veiled threat to retaliate. It seems to have worked in the short run although the religious tensions remained very high and no one knew whether or not religious violence or even war would break out.
He and 8 others were executed by the military dictatorship which controlled Nigeria. It was led by General Sani Abacha who was the chief “goon” to whom he was referring. His observation is fundamental of protest activities in countries of high illiteracy. Printed literature is relatively impotent in an oral, illiterate country. But “literature in the streets” is the oral protest of large groups of people. Because he was so effective at organizing this, he was executed on trumped up charges and his bidy hidden from his followers and relatives. See {586598} and {586597}.
