Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...author's native Ibo language, Mbonu means "deeds, not words." Readers will undoubtedly find many of Ojike's deeds convincing. When he tried to register at a hotel in Iowa, he was told that Negroes were not welcome. "I beg your pardon," he replied haughtily, "I am a Black man from Nigeria." Ojike got the room. He was also initiated into American pomp and protocol, and discovered that by wearing Nigerian robes one could get admitted to many lily-white functions. But when he tried to enroll an African friend in the University of Chicago Medical School, Ojike...
...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 the new trend...
...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...