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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbors have shaken off colonialism only to sink into strongman rule. Nigeria not only preaches but practices the dignity of the individual. And where such other islands of order in Africa as Liberia. Togo and the former French Congo lack the size and power to overbalance thrusting Ghana and Guinea (combined population: 8,665,000), the Federation of Nigeria stands a giant among Lilliputians; last October, when Nigeria's 40 million people got their independence, the free population of Black Africa jumped 50%. Backed by such numbers, Nigeria's sober voice urging the steady, cautious way to prosperity...

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

Hershey Bars & Chickens. Sprawled along 580 miles of the choppy Gulf of Guinea, Sir Abubakar's Nigeria is a ragged rectangle the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. Just behind the beach, guarded by a great green mangrove wall, lie sweltering swamps-and the mosquitoes whose deadly bite kept white men from settling Nigeria as they did Algeria, Kenya and the Rhodesias.* Beyond the swamps is the thick layer of tangled rain forest, where the natives pick cocoa pods for the world's chocolate factories and gather oil palms for the big soap firms. Then comes the undulating...

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

...Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...

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

...dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation's leader; at last week's end he headed for London to mull over Commonwealth problems with Harold Macmillan, stopped off en route to discuss the Algerian war with Arab leaders in Tunis...

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

Symbolism was rampant. In the hope of aiding African unity, Mali deliberately matched its colors to the red, yellow and green of the flags of Guinea and Ghana. The horizontal black, white and red stripes of Upper Volta stand, appropriately enough, for the three rivers called the Black, White and Red Volta. Tropical Gabon achieved a romantic note: its yellow band represents the equator running between the green of Gabon's forests and the blue of the sea. Togo touched nearly every base: its green stripes represent agriculture, its gold, wealth; red stands for patriotism, and the single white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: NEW FLAGS OF 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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