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...Western Region premier, last May rebelled against Awolowo's policies, was sacked as deputy leader and dismissed as the West's premier (he was later reinstated by court order). Awolowo's high-handed reprisals led to a chair-throwing melee in the Western Region assembly at Ibadan in which the ceremonial mace was shattered and the politicians subdued with tear...
...Nigerian Foreign Minister Wachuku's contention that Miss Michelmore's hurried jotting of her subjective reactions was not precisely a model of scholarly accuracy. If, indeed, Miss Michelmore had shown such bad manners as to publicize her views during her stay, no one could seriously blame the students at Ibadan for demanding her departure...
From the moment of its inception, the U.S. Peace Corps, for all its laudable aims, was bound to run into trouble sooner or later. As it turned out, that trouble came sooner: last week, just 20 days after the first Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Ibadan. Nigeria, a raucous ruckus was raised by a postcard written by a girl from Foxboro, Mass...
...Margery Jane Michelmore, 23, a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College (1960), who had gone to Nigeria with 36 other Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch...
...that as it may, the Ibadan incident has not moved me in my support of Harvard's participation in training Peace Corps Volunteers and in the Peace Corps proposition itself. For although it may not be the ideal mechanism for directing part of our trained human resources to the task of development in underdeveloped countries, it is a fairly reasonable arrangement and should be supported until something better comes along. Martin Kilson, Tutor in Government; Research Associate, Center for International Affairs...