ISBN:
9789788431657
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (392 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Frank Kokori : The Struggle for June 12
DDC:
305.896
Keywords:
Presidents -- Nigeria -- Election
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Nigeria -- Politics and government
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Nigeria ; Politics and government
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Presidents ; Nigeria ; Election
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Kokori: The Struggle for June 12 is the candid account of Chief Frank Kokori, former General Secretary of The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). It details the roles he and other individuals played in the quest to revalidate the June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was annulled by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida. The book details, in depth, the events before, during and after the election, up until the incarceration of Chief Kokori as well as the political fall-out which followed
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Heroes of Democracy; PROLOGUE: MY DREAM; One - KINGIBE, HAVE YOU CLEARED THIS WITH MKO?; Two - MY FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH KINGIBE AND POLITICS; Three - M.K.O. ABIOLA AND ME; Four - BEGINNING OUR FIGHT FOR JUNE 12; Five - BATTLING ABACHA; Six - NUPENG SLAMMED! KOKORI NABBED!; Seven - FRANK OVIE KOKORI; Eight - FROM SHANGISHA TO ABUJA; Nine - BAMA NIGHTMARE; Ten - FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD, WITH LOVE; Eleven - PRISON ROUTINE; Twelve - KINGIBE'S MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO BAMA; Thirteen - FREEDOM; Fourteen - PRISON PEN AND POEMS
Description / Table of Contents:
Fifteen - ESTHER AND THE CHILDREN IN THE STRUGGLESixteen - A LIFE ROOTED IN TRADE UNION STRUGGLES; Seventeen - MY OMPADEC MISADVENTURE; Eighteen - MY TRADE UNION DETENTIONS; Nineteen - POST-JUNE 12 BLUES; Twenty - HOW THE PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTSMIS CALCULATED; Twenty One - MY OWN HONOURS ROLL; Twenty Two - WHAT NIGERIA LOST IN JUNE 12; EPILOGUE - ODYSSEY AFTER NUPENG; Index; Back cover
Note:
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