Word: hausa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Style. Nigeria is about twice the size of Spain. Its population of 22 million is jammed into 373,000 square miles of jungle, swamp and grasslands. Its people are divided into three main tribes: the tough Moslem Hausas who live along the lower edge of the Sahara and despise the southern Nigerians; the town-dwelling Yorubas; and the farming Ibos. Mutual antagonism, sometimes exploited by the British, has kept the tribes apart. Since Zik's return, however, there has been a rapprochement. Zik, an Ibo, now wears a combination of Hausa and Yoruba style clothes to symbolize...
...political organization, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, Zik spent months driving trucks over Nigeria's bumpy roads, walking when there were no roads, visiting hundreds of villages. He collected ?13,500. According to Zik the tour was a success. Says Zik, "Some of the Hausa emirs who were appointed by the British came to see me in the night. They promised me money and moral support...
...pattern of native rivalry shows in Nigeria, too. Most of Zik's followers are members of the Ibo tribe. The British say that their departure would bring the Moslem Hausa tribe down from the north to dominate the Ibos and Yorubas. (That the British have sometimes encouraged such dissension does not obviate the fact that fierce quarrels among the colonial peoples break out even where the British do their level best to create unity among native groups...
...example of what may well prove to be a revolution in language teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables...
Flood. Two days later the flood broke. First came word that the remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents...