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What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony

What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony. Wale Adebanwi (University of California, Davis) 2013 Oxford African Studies Center Annual Lecture. A close friend can become a close enemy  - An African proverb. IBB and Vatsa.

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What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony

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  1. What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony Wale Adebanwi (University of California, Davis) 2013 Oxford African Studies Center Annual Lecture

  2. A close friend can become a close enemy - An African proverb IBB and Vatsa Young Babangida (left) and friend, Vatsa, at Okigwein the late 1960s during the Civil War

  3. Fall and Ruin

  4. A good friend stabs you in the front - Oscar Wilde Sankara and Compaore Sankara(right) in a relaxed mood with his friend, Compaore

  5. Sankara and Compaore What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies - Aristotle

  6. A Network of Friends Obasanjo Vatsa IBB Abiola Abacha Ige Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success- Oscar Wilde Yar’Adua

  7. Abiola &Babangida: Friendship Nurtured by Ambition

  8. Abiola and Abacha: The Deadly Path of Betrayal

  9. Yar’Adua and IBB/Yar’Adua and Abacha: Friendship-in-King(-Making)

  10. Obasanjo and Ige: Friendship Despite Ideological Difference

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