The Small-Scale Rural Food-Processing Industry in Northern Nigeria

Chris Affor wrote "My Story" and "A Tribute to Solidarity: My Oasis" while serving time in Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos State, Nigeria. He was a member of the PRAWA programme, which works to build solidarity among prisoners. Chris continues to serve time on awaiting-trial holding charges.Uju Agomoh has a PhD in criminology and prison studies (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), an MPhil degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, England, and an LLB from the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfi eld College). She is involved in monitoring human rights violations within African penal systems. Her work includes training, research, documentation, and provision of support services to prisoners, ex-prisoners, torture survivors, and their families. She has undertaken prison assessment visits in over 100 prisons in Nigeria, South Africa, The Gambia, and Rwanda. Her work has facilitated training over 5,000 prison guards in good prison practice and international human rights standards for the treatment of prisoners in Ghana and Nigeria. She is the founder and executive director of a human rights non-governmental organization, Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA), with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. She was appointed in July 2000 as a federal commissioner and member of the Governing Council of the National Human Rights Commission in Nigeria. She is the xi xii | Colonial Systems of Control special rapporteur on police, prison, and other centres of detention for the Nigerian Human Rights Commission and a member of the Nigerian Presidential Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.

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The Small-Scale Rural Food-Processing Industry in Northern Nigeria

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