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...caravan center of Kano, whose chronicles date back to A.D. 960 and whose big, modern airport today is one of the world's busiest. For coastal Nigeria the ages passed without written record until the late 15th century, when Portuguese adventurers sailed and marched up the creeks to Benin, whose 16th and 17th century bronzes (some of which depict Portuguese traders) are now among Africa's most treasured art objects. To the Portuguese-and the English who eventually displaced them-Nigeria's most valuable commodity was its people. Between 1562 (when Sir John Hawkins carried Britain...
Melanesian tom-toms, Benin bronzes, a footstool in the shape of a kneeling woman, a dog-shaped bowl, and African, American Indian and South Sea Island idols by the score comprised a wild little dream world within the Fine Arts' staid galleries of European pictures. Most exciting finds were the small gold ornaments from pre-Columbian
Less than a month after Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed self-government for Eastern and Western Nigeria, the tropic Federation got its first Prime Minister and installed its first all-Nigerian Cabinet in the capital of Lagos, beside the tepid green waters of the Bight of Benin.* Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a Northern Moslem, became Nigeria's first Prime Minister. In a graceful speech opening Parliament, Balewa paid tribute to British statesmanship and the service of Christian missionaries, spoke of the "tremendous good will" that existed between Britain and Nigeria, but emphasized that he and his ministers are" "irrevocably committed...
...Lagos was best known to 19th century Britons as "the white man's grave," inspired the old couplet: "Beware and take heed of the Bight of Benin, / There few come out, where many...
...Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began last spring when Republican Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious case of political anemia...