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Martin Kilson, assistant professor of Government, and E. U. Essien-Udom, author of the famous Black Nationalism (written at Chicago under Edward C. Banfield) were anticipating, based on their knowledge of Negro lower class culture and the Muslim phenomenon, that the ghettoes, would soon erupt into riot. "What's going to stop them?" Epps would ask. "Negroes like you," was their reply...
...Essien U. Essien-Udom, teaching assistant in Government, was speaking about Lumumba's political career. At the interruption, he declared "it is impossible to continue" and left the meeting. Many of the 50 students present followed...
...Essien-Udom stated, however, that he knew of no such restriction. He also pointed out, "we know of Lumumba only as a political figure and it is impossible to talk of him without referring to his politics." He added that if the Center objected to political statements, it should not have allowed the meeting...
...Pattengill acted in a most arbitrary manner in deciding which statements were partisan and offensive," Essien-Udom charged...
...Harvard Essien-Udom is also working on a study of the African elite that emerged between 1900 and World War II. He plans eventually to return to West Africa, hopefully to Nigeria, and to teach in one of the universities there. Although he does not intend to enter politics, he does hope to help work for a united Africa; an Africa that can develop its resources and still preserve "the tradition and wisdom passed on to us by our ancestors...