ISIOMA SDS  

Isioma is an Igbo name and means "Good luck". In Igboland, as in other parts of Nigeria and Africa, naming a baby is a very important event. When in 1981 the Daniel family celebrated the birth of their newly born child who 21 years later became a journalist with the Daily News in Lagos they were confident their daughter will have "Good Luck" in her life. She in fact did fine, she was good in school and with twenty she went to London to learn the profession of journalism.

After only three months with the Daily News in Lagos her fate took a sharp turn: Her article about the beauty pagent that was supposed to take place in Nigeria resulted in a fatwa against her. The Islamist rulers in northern Nigeria felt being offended by her remark that Mohammed, the Islamic prophet, probably might  have married one of the contestants. Every Muslim was called upon to take her life.

Isioma Daniel took no further risk and fled the country. Today she lives in hiding somewhere in a non-Muslim environment. This internet project is dedicated to her and her cause, to her progressive, rationalistic, pro working people, and feminist   topics. May her name provide us all with what we most need: Good Luck and Happiness.

SDS is an abbreviation that was widely known in the USA as well as in Western Germany. During the nineteensixties these three letters for many meant democracy and socialism, revolt and anarchy, anti-authoritarianism and anti-imperialism. Students for a Democratic Society and the Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund were brothers and sisters in ideas and action. This internet project is dedicated to preserve their history. 

Go to: 

www.isioma.net

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