Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the time came to vote in Nigeria's first national elections last week, the candidates were too tired and hoarse for last-minute attacks on opponents, instead led their numbed election-eve audiences in singing tribal ballads, on the plausible theory that enough was enough.
For three months the country's 9,000,000 voters had endured every variety of speech, parade and accusation. In the slums of Lagos, naked children ran through the streets blowing "ZEE-EEK" on whistles handed out by supporters of Eastern Region Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, or noisily deflated...
Presumably the North had the most votes, but-as an election last month showed in the neighboring Northern Cameroons-Moslems were restive under the ruling emirs. Alarmed, the Sardauna began a whirlwind electioneering bout, made 150 speeches in six weeks. The Sardauna did not want the federal prime ministership for...
At first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems...
Into the town of Comodoro Rivadavia on the windswept Patagonian coast flew President Arturo Frondizi last week to celebrate the 52nd anniversary of the day an Alsatian engineer, drilling for water, brought in the country's first paying oil well. What Frondizi saw, touring by open car, was a...