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.
