Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and John Pepper Clark at Dodan Barracks

Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and John Pepper Clark at Dodan Barracks to plead with Head of State, Major-General Ibrahim Babangida, to spare the life of a fellow poet and writer, Mamman Vatsa, March 5, 1986.

Vatsa was executed few hours later...

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