Word: fulani
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his youth, "Jack" Gowon was not a bad choice. A spartan, British-trained officer who neither smokes nor drinks (his hobby is bird watching), Gowon, although a Northerner, is not a member of the region's dominant Hausa and Fulani tribes. Nor is he a Moslem; his father, a member of the smaller Birom tribe, is a Methodist missionary. But his task is not easy...
Whether or not the new government was sincere in its vows to hold the nation together, Nigerians were taking no chances. With threats of secession coming from all regions except the powerless Middle West, the nation's trains, planes and highways were suddenly crowded with Hausas and Fulani fleeing from the South and Ibos and Yorubas deserting the North. Within a matter of weeks, they figured, they might well be caught behind enemy lines...
...final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties: the ruling National Nigerian Alliance (N.N.A.), whose power base lies among the proud, haughty Hausa and Fulani peoples of the north, and the opposition United Progressive Grand Alliance (U.P.G.A.), which is strongest in the three territories of east and west...
...Awolowo, 54, a mercurial, London-trained barrister who became opposition leader in Lagos when his party lost the 1959 federal elections. Awolowo then ranged his people firmly against the middle-road coalition government, composed of the conservative Northern People's Congress (NPC), supported by the proud, primitive Fulani and Hausa tribes of the North, and the progressive National Convention of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), which is based in the East...
...years older than his country. He was born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training College, normally open only to sons of the northern feudal elite...