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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Toward Disintegration? | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Model Breaks Down | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Nation on Trial | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...furnish most of the country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen of Imam Othman dan Fodio overwhelmed the original Hausa inhabitants. Though it is still an essentially feudal society in which Hausa-speaking masses are ruled by stern Fulani emirs, the North today, by sheer weight of numbers, controls Nigeria's federal House of Representatives and, in the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Black Rock | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Black Rock | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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