Producing Knowledge in Africa Today The Second Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola Distinguished Lecture
Producing Knowledge in Africa Today The Second Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola Distinguished Lecture
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当今非洲的知识生产第二届 Bashorun M. K. O. Abiola 杰出讲座
DOI：
10.2307/524790
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
P. Hountondji
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作者：
P. Hountondji
首先，我要感谢非洲研究协会全国小组委员会和理事会对我的盛情邀请，并向以他的名字命名这一系列讲座的人表示敬意。Bashorun MK阿比奥拉自1994年6月24日以来已被拘留134天，即4个多月。大约两年前，我有机会也是荣誉地见到了他，当时我担任贝宁文化和传播部的负责人，并负责一个名为“奴隶之路项目”的项目，该项目类似于Bashorun Abiola的赔偿运动。阿比奥拉先生访问了贝宁，并与索格洛总统进行了长时间会谈。在不干涉任何特定国家内政的情况下，也不想火上浇油的情况下，请允许我指出，一个人因赢得选举而被捕，是非洲和二十世纪末人类文明的耻辱。Bashorun Abiola被拘留的时间每增加一天，危机就会变得更加严重和更加无法容忍。无论他们面临什么困难，无论国家局势多么复杂，阿比奥拉酋长所在国家的现任统治者都应该认识到，他们是在牺牲自己的生命，他们的利益是尽早释放一个众所周知的无辜者。在非尼日利亚人看来，使尼日利亚仍然成为一个伟大国家和整个非洲的榜样的当然不是纯粹的武力统治，而是尼日利亚民主人士在继续争取人权和法治的斗争中的坚韧和勇气。
I wish first to thank the National Panels Committee and the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association for extending this kind invitation to me. Allow me to pay homage to the man after whom this series of lectures was named. Bashorun M.K.O. Abiola has been in detention for 134 days, that is more than four months, since June 24, 1994. I had the opportunity and honor to meet him about two years ago, when I headed the Department of Culture and Communications in Benin and was in charge of a project known as “The Slave Route Project,” which was similar to Bashorun Abiola's campaign for reparations. Mr. Abiola visited Benin and had long talks with President Soglo. Without interfering with the domestic affairs of any particular country, but also without seeking to pour oil on the fire, let me mention that it is a shame for Africa and for human civilization at the end of the twentieth century that a man should be arrested for winning elections. Every additional day Bashorun Abiola spends in detention makes the crisis more serious and more intolerable. Whatever difficulties they face, however complex the national situation, present rulers in Chief Abiola's country should realize that they are making a martyr at their own expense and that their interest is to release, as early as possible, a man whose innocence is evident to all. What in the eyes of non-Nigerians still makes Nigeria a great country and a model to all Africa is certainly not a reign of sheer force but the tenacity and courage of Nigerian democrats in their continuing struggle for human rights and the rule of law.