Pyrates: Original Anticorruption in Nigeria In 1953, the Pyrates Confraternity (PC), an all-male campus fraternity, began at the University of Ibadan (then a college of the University of London) by seven men. The most famous of the seven being Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka. University education in Nigeria was just half…
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Social Crisis
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists?
“Escravos”: Elite Anti-Colonialists? If you have the privilege to visit Warri, the former “oil city” of Nigeria in Delta State coastal Southern partand ask about the organisation that calls itself “Escravos,” it will not take you too long to find out who they are and where they assemble regularly. You…