The family that went to war with a military dictatorship

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Hafsat Abiola Costello's dad was nearly Nigeria's president - but he had powerful enemies

His name was Moshood Abiola, also known as MKO, and he was one of Africa's richest men before turning to politics. He was the presumed winner of a 1993 Presidential election, but the incumbent military regime annulled the result and had him arrested. Hafsat and her mother fought for his release, but the family paid a high price for taking on the generals..

Presenter: Emily Webb Producer: Harry Graham Editor: Munazza Khan Sound design: Joel Cox

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful
0:23.7	stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	The way that we interact with food,
0:34.1	the beliefs that we have around food,
0:35.8	the emotions that food hold
0:37.2	because food isn't
0:38.1	just fuel, it has all of these other things. In short, we are going to talk about food. The food chain
0:43.9	is the podcast with a love of all things food. Something that is so much part of me. Each week,
0:50.1	we take a deep dive into a story centered around food.
0:55.5	Adventure into other cultures.
0:58.9	I look at the food as a kind of a global smogers sport on which I can choose and pick.
1:01.6	Every place has their own rituals about it.
1:04.1	Multiple identities.
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