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...British Empire following 160 years of colonial rule, and soon thereafter appointed Nnamdi Azikiwe its head of state. As fanfare and festivities erupted that week in the city of Lagos, roughly 30 Nigerian students attending universities in the Boston area celebrated remotely, alongside then-Harvard undergraduate Chukwuma B. Azikiwe ??63, son of the man who would soon take the helm of the most populous nation in Africa...
Harvard Director of Admissions David D. Henry ??41 flew to Nigeria in June of 1960 to hand-pick the students who would be granted admission...
Christian L. Ohiri ??64—a varsity soccer star who still holds school records for all-time goals, goals in a game, and consecutive games with a goal—was chosen that year. After Ohiri’s untimely death in 1966, Harvard’s soccer stadium was named after...
...??There was this notion that African countries would be less dependent on colonial powers and become their own bosses,?? said Seamus P. Malin ??62, a former Harvard admissions officer who was a senior midfielder when Ohiri joined the varsity team as a sophomore...
...??Student exchange was a way to help train for the future—that was very much the inspiration,?? Malin said...