Word: ibos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the right arm of the Y is the heavily forested Eastern Region (pop. 9,000,000), home of the Ibo. a fiercely independent people, half Christian, half pagan, and known, because of their get-up-and-go, as "the Jews of Africa...
Black Africa's first TV station and Nigeria's first university are in the Western capital of Ibadan, where three-quarters of a million people cluster noisily under a sea of tin roofs. Between them, the Yoruba West and bustling Ibo East dominate Nigeria's commerce and furnish most of the country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen...
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was resisted every inch of the way by the Ashanti chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education...
When talk of independence began to spread, he entered politics, but with the purpose of fighting against self-rule for Nigeria, not for it. He insisted that the north, lacking educated leaders, was not ready, and even threatened a jihad (holy war) against the more advanced Ibo and Yoruba tribesmen of the south if the British walked out and left Nigerians to rule themselves. But a visit to the U.S. in 1955 as Nigeria's Minister of Works convinced him that widely differing nationalities could live together in peace. "Until then, I assure you that I did not believe...