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...abruptly as it began, Nigeria's political crisis faded away last week. In five days of talks at the presidential palace in Lagos, political leaders from the East and West argued bitterly over the election that returned Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's Northern-based alliance to power-and led the East to threaten secession. But tempers cooled. The regional leaders recognized that the alternatives to compromise were chaos and the destruction of Africa's most populous country...
...expanding economy and a growing network of roads and power lines. Foreign capital was rolling in at close to $90 million a year, modern office buildings and factories were springing up from shantytowns, the literacy rate had been raised 50%, and four new universities were opened. Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa encouraged a free press, an active Parliament-and a boisterous political opposition. Nigerians liked to boast that their country was the only nation in Africa in which the government in power might actually lose an election...
...N.N.A. candidates would return to Parliament-unopposed. Immediately, Opposition Leader Michael Okpara, Premier of the Eastern Region, demanded that the elections be postponed until "the irregularities have been regularized" and U.P.G.A. candidates allowed to register. President Azikiwe, himself an Ibo from the East, backed the demand. But Sir Abubakar refused, and with that, the U.P.G.A. high command ordered its followers to boycott the election and its candidates to withdraw...
...happiest combination of political freedom and national progress on the continent so far has occurred in Nigeria. There, three clearly defined and potentially antagonistic tribal regions have been melded into a smoothly working two-party federal government under stolid Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Since 1950, Nigeria's gross national product has grown steadily. It now has five universities where it had none in 1947, and its primary-school enrollment has more than tripled (from 820,000 to 2,600,000) in the same time. But Sir Abubakar has his problems. Nigeria's last official census...
...alone), more than half have been racked by severe political and economic convulsions, ranging from the bloody civil wars of the Congo to virtual bankruptcy in Guinea to the assassination of a President in Togo. Under moderate leaders like Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, independence has brought stability. Under Red-hot redeemers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, it has sometimes brought political repression and financial ruin...