Sentences with phrase «late dictator»

The Yar» Adua death and the almost two months of uncertainties, coupled with a similar experience during the days of late dictator, Sanni Abacha, Nigerians are more cautious and doubtful of what they are told about the true state of the health of their leaders.

Other targets of the U.S. penalties are Gambia's former president, as well as the daughter of Uzbekistan's late dictator and the son of Russia's prosecutor general.

He added that he was hounded by the military junta under the late dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha, while he was a member of the National Democratic Coalition, yet he never deviated from fighting for the cause of the masses.

This may be why heads of state like Mobutu Sese Seko, the late dictator of Zaire, wear leopard - skin robes and hats.

Movies about the late dictator often disappoint because directors are wary of the subject matter; Hirschbiegel pushes forward, telling his story without varnish.

«Death of Stalin» follows that pattern while upping Ianucci's filmmaking ambition — it's basically «Veep» in the Soviet Union, with a bunch of top - ranking ministers vying (and scheming) to inherit the late dictator's role.

The mix of techniques and materials together with imagery from the U.S. and Nigeria — the late dictator Sani Abacha, a friend's North Dakota wedding, a band in Nigeria that began as Michael Jackson impersonators — speak to straddling nationalities, divided personal histories and the greater appropriation of cultural traditions.

But what this first show reveals is just how civilised it looks as our national image instead of a flag or a framed photo of the latest dictator.

Created by designer Joe Stephenson, Evil Standby Kim takes on the age - old problem of vampire power by applying a more worldly analogy of evil - the face of the late dictator Kim Jong Il.