Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest question mark. Held together in uneasy federation, the country numbered some 250 tribes and languages, three principal religions (Moslem. Christian, animist), and three big, traditionally hostile regions: the feudal, Moslem North, which claims half the entire population of Nigeria; the East, dominated by the astute, industrious Ibo tribes; and the West, richest and most advanced of all three, whose Yoruba tribesmen are Nigeria's most sophisticated citizens. As big as Texas and Oklahoma combined, with some 45 million inhabitants-give or take 10 million-Nigeria seemed less a nation than a concatenation, a haphazard creation of British colonists...
...these centers offers instruction languages, in addition to in history, government, and . Howard teaches Yoruba and Duquesne gives Swahill courses; State offers Yoruba and Ibo; has the facilities to teach from Swahili to Kikongo, problems involved in teaching languages represent, in acute difficulties which colleges face to Africa as a whole. The is not lack of interest or shortage of funds, but the absence of qualified instructors for teaching...
...from Iboland. Despite a reputation for being emotional and showy, Jaja Wachuku at 42 stands head and shoulders above most of his African brethren at the U.N., in ability and common sense. Descendant of 20 generations of African chiefs in the Ibo country of Eastern Nigeria, he went to West Africa's public schools, then won a place at Dublin's Trinity College, where a law degree came easily, along with a medal for oratory...
Back home, there were plenty of noisy young men who did. Noisiest was the flamboyant Nnamde ("Zik") Azikiwe, a nimble Ibo spellbinder who had spent nine years in the U.S. working as a coal miner, professional boxer and gatherer of university degrees (Lincoln University, the University of Pennsylvania). Returning home, he became the loudest advocate of an independent, united Nigeria. Under the rising pressure, the British agreed to set up-as "advisory" bodies only-local Houses of Assembly in all three regions, plus a federal legislative council...
...Rebel's Conversion. By then Nigerian politics had taken on a permanent three-way stretch. In the Ibo East, Zik's National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons held sway. In the West, the Action Group, headed by shrewd, stodgy Chief Obafemi Awolowo (pronounced Ah-Wo-lo-wo), spoke for the Yoruba people. Northern power then (as now) meant tall, solemn Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (commander) of Sokoto and boss of the Northern Peoples Congress...