Word: balewa
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...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...
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...
...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...
...debased and mispronounced. His examples: the name of Guinea's President, Sékou Touré, is a corruption of Sheikh el Tarika (meaning chief of tribe); Mali's President Modibo Keita is properly Muadab Kita (meaning polite); Nigeria's Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa should be called Abu Bakr Abu Eleiwa (all proper names...
Like everything else about him, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa's basic foreign policy principles are unpretentious: "We consider it wrong for the Federal Government to associate itself as a matter of routine with any of the power blocs . . . Our policies will be founded on Nigeria's interests and will be consistent with the moral and democratic principles on which our constitution is based." If Nigeria lives up to his words, Africa and the world will have cause to be grateful...