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Hafsat Abiola

Hafsat Abiola is the President of the National Pro-Democracy Movement of Nigeria.

Over the years, involvement in the Nigerian revolution has taken its toll on Abiola's family. Hafsat's mother, Kudirat Abiola, was assassinated by the military regime in June 1996. Hafsat's father, President Moshood Abiola, was imprisoned in 1993. Just prior to release from prison in 1998 he died of a heart attack.

A recent college graduate, Hafsat now raises her two younger brothers and two younger sisters in Washington, DC.

She says of her family's political sacrifice: "We are responsible for the people in Nigeria. In a sense, we are their servants."

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