The Death of Dele Giwa
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
An eyewitness to the assassination of the campaigning Nigerian journalist Dele Giwa. He was murdered in Lagos in 1986 while the country was under military rule.In October 1986, Dele Giwa was the founder of the investigative magazine Newswatch. In 2014, Alex Last spoke to his friend and colleague, Kayode Soyinka, who was with him when he died. Photo: Dele Giwa
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:11.8 | telly we share what we've been watching |
| 0:14.0 | Cladie Aide. |
| 0:16.0 | Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello and thank you for |
| 1:00.6 | downloading the witness podcast from the BBC World Service with me Alex |
| 1:04.8 | Last. And today it's another chance to hear the story of Dela Gewa, the campaigning Nigerian journalist |
| 1:11.9 | who was murdered in Lagos in 1986 during the dark days of military rule. |
| 1:17.0 | Nigeria is reported to be calm tonight despite another military coup the sixth in the past 25 years. |
| 1:30.0 | The mid-1980s and Nigeria was under military rule, but there was a change at the top. |
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