Word: abubakar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chosen: the West. As chief of by far the most populous country represented. Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did most of the talking. The participants agreed on their "unswerving loyalty'' to the U.N. They censured the arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...
...citation for excellence, from a jury of our peers in the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan, for last December's cover story on Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Balewa. It was based on a 30,000-word file from James Bell and written by Edward Hughes, who like Bell has crisscrossed Africa from Cairo to the Cape, and from Abidjan to Zanzibar as a TIME correspondent...
...names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds later as a new green, white and blue flag fluttered...
Round the green baize table in London's mirrored Lancaster House, Nkrumah. India's Nehru and Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa backed a proposal of Canada's Diefenbaker: they agreed not to press for a showdown on apartheid, provided that a communique permitted them to spell out. in general terms, their feelings about Verwoerd's racial policies...
...feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During the newsreel at a Johannesburg movie theater, the audience loudly applauded both Verwoerd and Britain's Macmillan, and was relaxed enough to roar with laughter at shots of Verwoerd shaking hands with Nigeria's black Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...