Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicians. The Sardauna and Sir Abubakar have been murdered, as has their ally, Chief Samuel Akintola, Premier of the West, and their friend Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, the incredibly rich Federal Finance Minister who held the key to the balance of power in the Midwestern Region. Only the Ibo East has not lost a major leader...
Police raided shrines in Benin, discovered banned devices used in juju ceremonies and two human skulls, feeding rumors that the cult engaged in human sacrifice. Finally, last spring, when Chief Dennis Osadebay, the Mid-West's Ibo prime minister, was threatened with death if he did not curb Ibo political activities, the federal government in Lagos decided to step in. Off to Benin went the respected judge D.A.R. Alexander to begin a full-dress federal inquiry...
...Negroes cannot be admitted to the church's priesthood. For this reason, Mormon missionaries have never tried very hard to make converts in black Africa. Yet Mormons also believe that Negroes may be admitted to the priesthood in heaven. This apparently is good enough for 7,000 Ibibio, Ibo and Efik tribesmen in eastern Nigeria, who have gone ahead to organize their own branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Realistically, Nigeria has never been a nation in much more than name. It is divided into three mutually suspicious ethnic areas, the semifeudal but dominant Moslem Northern Region, the enterprising and oil-rich Eastern Region, home of the clever Ibo tribesmen, and the relatively urbane Mid-Western and Western regions, where sophisticated Yoruba leaders like to say, "We are the English of Nigeria, clever and diplomatic, no final commitments and always a foot in each camp." And despite its democratic facade, Nigerian politics is little more than a raw power struggle between two shifting alliances of regional and tribal parties...
...before the elections, when Northern election authorities announced that 64 N.N.A. candidates would return to Parliament-unopposed. Immediately, Opposition Leader Michael Okpara, Premier of the Eastern Region, demanded that the elections be postponed until "the irregularities have been regularized" and U.P.G.A. candidates allowed to register. President Azikiwe, himself an Ibo from the East, backed the demand. But Sir Abubakar refused, and with that, the U.P.G.A. high command ordered its followers to boycott the election and its candidates to withdraw...