Word: akintola
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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State of Emergency. The Southerner was Samuel Ladoke Akintola (B.A., Oxon), slick-talking Yoruba lawyer who had just resigned as Minister of Labor in Nigeria's central Council of Ministers. A nationalist who wants home rule (within the British Commonwealth) by 1956, Akintola had journeyed to Kano hoping to arrange a meeting which would whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters-who in the main are just, if aloof...
...alike broke away from their mosque and poured into the Saba N'Gari (Stranger's Quarter), where 60,000 Ibos and Yorubas conduct Kano's retail business. Rioting went on for three days; when it was all over last week, 45 were dead, 200 injured. Speechmaker Akintola was bundled into a government plane and shipped back South, where he promptly indicted his attackers as "victims of imperialism, who have lived so long in bondage as to lose every taste for liberty...