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galayoh ali khali:
Administrator, civil servant, international relations expert, politician, political scientist, statesman, university teacher; Born October 15, 1941 in Lasanod, Somalia, East Africa; Education: BA, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA: 1965, MA, PhD, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA: 1969, 1972. Career history: currently, Professor of International Relations and International Affairs, Herbert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, MN, USA. More...
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 Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) once said: “ Three hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
The French Emperor/dictator should know. That aphorism was poignantly demonstrated in Nigeria during the military dictatorship of Nigeria 's most rapacious leader, late Gen. Sani Abacha. Moshood Fayemiwo, then Publisher/Editor of the muckraking weekly tabloid: Razor with two other equally anti-military publications: Tempo and Tell proved that, verily, the pen was indeed mightier than the sword.
Fayemiwo walked where angels feared to dread. He published stories no newspaper/magazine could print. At a time when collective awe stalked the entire Nigerian landscape, his papers: the caustic Razor and Evening News became the rallying vanguard for pro-democracy organizations to mount sustain efforts to get rid of the Evil Man of Nigeria: Gen. Sani Abacha. He gave hell to the thieving politicians working in cahoots with the military gangsters ruining Nigeria . He cut to size corrupt Nigerians who used their positions to amass ill-gotten wealth. Before Abacha met his Waterloo in July 1998, his papers had spilled the beans of the putrefying shenanigans of that misbegotten autocrat.
He was the first to break the story of Abacha's loot squirreled in Switzerland . The monster of corruption under Ibrahim Babangida, Abacha's predecessor; why the General ordered the murder of late Dele Giwa, founding Editor of Newswatch magazine, Gloria Okon's drug episode which led to Babangida's coup of August 27, 1985, the roles played by late MKO Abiola and Gen. Obasanjo in the coup that toppled Gen. Buhari and many more were stories no newspaper/magazine could publish in Nigeria but only Razor. The reasons for the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election has just been disclosed in his award-winning book: MKO Abiola: The Authorized Biography http://www.amzon.com
During his journalism days in Nigeria , Moshood made a lot of enemies; he stepped on too many toes. He took on the powerful, the rich, the privileged and the influential because his brand of journalism was different. As he once said: “ The purpose of journalism is to reshape society. Those in positions of power and authority must be made accountable to the people.”
He has passed through the different rungs of journalism ladder: reporter, correspondent, special project writer, production editor and editor/publisher. For using journalism as a tool to fight the decadence in Nigeria , Moshood paid dearly for it. He was harassed, detained, and tortured. In summer 1996 when the threats to his family became unbearable, he fled to Ghana then to neighboring Benin Republic seeking political asylum. It was at the United Nations Refugee Camp that the goons of Gen. Abacha penetrated and succeeded in kidnapping him back to Nigeria: http ://archives.cjr.org/year/ 9 8/6/nigeria.asp http://africadatabase.org/en/person/14436.html http://amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar98
He was kept at the underground tunnel of the dreaded Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) run by Abacha's Gestapo: www.usemb.se/human/ h uman97/nigeria.html) His pathetic condition attracted the attention of human right organizations around the world http://www.ifex.org/content/vi e w/full/6883 , http://www.cpj.org/news/199 8 /ghanaconf.html including late Pope John Paul II who had to travel to Nigeria in summer 1998 to plead with the wraith called Abacha to release him and other political prisoners held by the bestial regime . He recounted his harrowing experience to the world media shortly after he regained his freedom in September 1998 following the death of Gen. Sani Abacha. Shortly thereafter, he relocated from Nigeria to the United States with his family. http: //archives.cjr.org/year/98/nigeria.asp
Born in Owo, Ondo State , Western Nigeria . He graduated from the University of Lagos, Nigeria in 1988, obtained his MA in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida in 2004 and a second master's degree (MS) in Information Science from State University of New York (SUNY) Albany, NY, USA. He is currently in the Graduate School of Computing and Information at SUNY-Albany and concurrently a Juris Doctoral Student at Albany Law School , Albany , NY , USA.
An award-winning author, writer, journalist and public affairs analyst, his two books; Interpreting Dreams and Is Muslims' Allah God Almighty ? won Writer's Digest Book Award in 2001. He is also recipient of both This is not Journalism Graduate ! and Graduate Publication Awards, University of South Florida, FL, USA and Courageous Journalist Award, Crow's Nest newspaper, FL, USA. His scholarly publications have appeared in such international journals as Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies based in London , UK: http://convergence.luton. a c.uk/issues/volumeten/numberfour
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC ): http://l i st.msu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411c&L=aejmc&F=&S=&P=26589 , http://aejmc.convention/2004abstracts/nrewspaper.htm and others.
A member of numerous professional organizations including; American Association of University Professors, National Association of Black Journalists, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, American Library Association, American Association of Information Science &Technology among others.
He is the Publisher/Editor of the first-ever Who's Who of Africans in America : 2005-2006. He is also the Vice-Chairman/CEO, US-African Publishing Inc, USA . He lives in Albany , NY with his son, Fola and both worship at Restoration Assembly, Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America. |
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