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Professor Wole Soyinka

EDM number 197 in 1997-98, proposed by Alan Johnson on 02/07/1997.

That this House welcomes the visit to the United Kingdom of the brilliant Nigerian writer Professor Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate) to give the annual Wilberforce Lecture in the great slave emancipator's birthplace of Hull on 8th July; applauds Professor Soyinka's consistent and courageous stance against oppression and injustice in Nigeria which force him to flee the country shortly after his friend the late Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested; notes that having endured imprisonment mostly in solitary confinement during 1960s, Wole Soyinka has continued his fearless opposition into the military dictatorship that has ruled Nigeria for nine of the last 37 years; and believes that there could be no better person to deliver the Wilberforce Lecture which is dedicated to the cause of human rights.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Johnson02/07/1997Kingston upon Hull West & HessleLabourProposed
Bob Laxton02/07/1997Derby NorthLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara02/07/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Paul Stinchcombe02/07/1997WellingboroughLabourSigned
Ernie Ross03/07/1997Dundee WestLabourSigned
Brian Iddon03/07/1997Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone03/07/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
John McWilliam03/07/1997BlaydonLabourSigned
Harry Barnes03/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
David Taylor03/07/1997North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Clive Soley04/07/1997Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's BushLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff07/07/1997Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
Norman Godman07/07/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Lynne Jones07/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Colin Pickthall07/07/1997West LancashireLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar07/07/1997Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Alice Mahon08/07/1997HalifaxLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/07/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Bill Michie08/07/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/07/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins09/07/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington10/07/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Roseanna Cunningham14/07/1997PerthScottish National PartySigned
Dafydd Wigley14/07/1997CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Michael Clapham16/07/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Nigel Jones17/07/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore17/07/1997HendonLabourSigned
Tony Colman24/07/1997PutneyLabourSigned
Dennis Turner29/07/1997Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Gunnell30/07/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Nick Harvey31/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned

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