Word: ibadan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also met with alumni while visiting Nigeria's Lagos and Ibadan Universities and Kenya's Nairobi University...
...Karefa-Smart came to Harvard in 1947 to study public health, and, after a year, returned to his village to apply community health measures he was sure would cut down the number of patients needing treatment for contagious diseases. But, before he could begin, the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, asked him to train other Africans in preventive medicine. He lectured there until...
...carrying on a vendetta. When the war ended, the defeated Biafran leader, Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu,* bitterly boasted that the Ibos would rebel again. He turned out to be wrong. Ibos these days rarely speak of Biafra or of secession. "We tried and lost," says an Ibo businessman in Ibadan. "That finishes it. From now on, we are all Nigerians...
...still in custody, along with a score of other ranking Biafran officials, all other prisoners of war have been sent home. The East Central State, where the Ibos are concentrated, is administered by an Ibo, Anthony Ukpabi Asika, 33, who studied at U.C.L.A., taught at the University of Ibadan, and sided with the federal government in Lagos during the rebellion. But seven of Asika's ten ministers were officials of the secessionist Biafran government...