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Home > Nigeria: Politics Aside, Nigeria Needs Refugee Farmers' Skills

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Thursday, May 6, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Land & land rights [2]
Issue Number: 
155 [3]
Article-Summary: 

If some writers in the Nigerian media are to be believed, a group of six white farmers from Zimbabwe have the power to destabilise their country of about 130-million people. Racist diatribes, in the mould of President Robert Mugabe's own thundering speeches, have suggested the farmers invited by the Kwara State government will only steal Nigerians' land, dupe innocent Nigerians with dangerous genetically modified crops and spread HIV/AIDS in order to get rid of black people. Others feel the...read more [4]

If some writers in the Nigerian media are to be believed, a group of six white farmers from Zimbabwe have the power to destabilise their country of about 130-million people. Racist diatribes, in the mould of President Robert Mugabe's own thundering speeches, have suggested the farmers invited by the Kwara State government will only steal Nigerians' land, dupe innocent Nigerians with dangerous genetically modified crops and spread HIV/AIDS in order to get rid of black people. Others feel the invitation is tantamount to sabotaging Mugabe's land reform programme.

Category: 
Human Security [5]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/land/21919 [6]
Country: 
Nigeria [7]

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