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...HAVE TWO COUNTRIES (208 pp.)-Mbonu Ojike-John...
...Mbonu Ojike spent seven years in the U.S. and returned to his native Nigeria in 1946 with a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a liberal education in race relations. As a writer, Mbonu has not taken as well to English. Yet as a study in African pride v. U.S. prejudice, this book has its amusing moments, mostly from Author Ojike's ingenuous tilting at some sacred U.S. windmills...
...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...