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...British educators like himself were invited by the government to participate. He became an administrator and teacher at University College of the West Indies. After his year at Harvard, Parry was asked by the British government to transfer to Nigeria where he helped to set up University College in Ibadan, Nigeria...
...principal of what is now "the largest university in Black Africa, the University of Ibadan," Parry helped to create in Africa a university similar in many respects to Cambridge. He recalls that "we drove the students hard and they took their studies very seriously." Admission was competitive--only about 15% of the applicants were accepted. "We set out to catch the ablest boys, since the courses we designed were every bit as hard as those at Harvard or Cambridge...
Parry, an authority on the Spanish and Portuguese empires in America, came to Harvard last fall from the University of Wales where he was vice-chancellor. From 1956 to 1960 he was principal of University College, in Ibadan, Nigeria, now the University of Ibadan...
Handcuffs & Dash. A similar scene was occurring at the same time in Ibadan, capital of the Western Region, where the Sardauna's political ally, Regional Premier Chief Samuel Akintola, was shot and his house burned down...
Fortnight ago, Akintola and the Sardauna of Sokoto met secretly in Ibadan, decided to call in the army to crush the growing rebellion. As far as the junior officers were concerned, that was the last straw. They launched their long-planned coup. "Our enemies," said Nzeogwu, "are the political profiteers, the men that seek bribes, those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so they can remain in office as Ministers, tribalists and nepotists, those that have corrupted our society and put the political calendar back...