Hafsat Abiola - Go back to politics & Says i will play the game the way it has always been played.'The Supreme Price': Fighting for Democracy in Nigeria...
"Some women enter into the system and say, 'We will play the game the way it has always been played,'" says Nigerian pro-democracy activist Hafsat Abiola. “I remember feeling frightened,” says Hafsat Abiola. “I just didn’t feel I could trust the police or their soldiers any more.” This after her…
The Nigerian pro-democracy activist Hafsat Abiola also added "Some of them will say the game has caused so much wrong, if I can make one little difference, I must do it."
“I remember feeling frightened,” says Hafsat Abiola. “I just didn’t feel I could trust the police or their soldiers any more.” This after her mother, Kudirat Abiola, the charismatic leader of a pro-democracy movement in Nigeria, was assassinated in 1996. As Hafsat today looks back on that fraught history, so personal as well as so frighteningly public, she also looks forward with hope. The founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy tells her story in The Supreme Price, which considers the many complexities of Nigeria, ruled by a series of military regimes from 1966-1996. As current events continue to swirl—including the terrors of Boko Haram and the troubling presidency of Goodluck Jonathan—Hafsat persists.
“Some women enter into the system and say, ‘We will play the game the way it has always been played,’” she says. “Some of them will say the game has caused so much wrong, if I can make one little difference, I must do it.” As she confronts political adversaries and military bullies, historical revisionism and a seemingly perpetually invasive press, Hafsat follows in her mother’s footsteps, embodying the nation’s forward motion, walking toward as her image cuts to black. In making visible the difficult history of Nigeria, The Supreme Price displays as well the means by which it is made.
