Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long-legged, black Haussa farmers in white robes and turbans loped into mud-walled Kano (pop. 120,000), the largest city in Northern Nigeria. Near the green-domed mosque, the Haussa mingled with their Moslem coreligionists, the fierce Fulani, and waited in the midday sun for the decision that would come from the palace. Abdullah Bayero, the fat and scented Emir of Kano, was wrestling with a problem. Both the royal flatterer and the court jester cowered in the background as he pounded across the Oriental rugs in the baked mud stronghold. At last the emir spoke: "Tell the Southerner...
...central Council of Ministers. A nationalist who wants home rule (within the British Commonwealth) by 1956, Akintola had journeyed to Kano hoping to arrange a meeting which would whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters-who in the main are just, if aloof-for a group of African Oxonians recruited in the coastal cities...
...roots of the trouble are not in colonial oppression (in modern Nigeria, there is none) but in the casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make...
...Moslem and Hindu leaders of Kenya's 120,000 Asians (most of them Indians) demanded the right, as Kenyans, to join in the fight against the terrorist Mau Mau. White settlers, who are outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Indians, 130 to 1 by the native Africans, protested that arms might make the Asians uppity, but the British Colonial Office, strapped for military manpower to cope with the Mau Mau, ordered 6,500 young Indians, between 18 and 23, to be drafted for military service...
Married. The Sultan of Pahang, 48; and Habsah Binte Lebai Mat, 22, amusement-park dancing girl; he for the fifth time, she for the first; in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. The sports-loving Sultan, bound by Moslem law which limits a man to only four wives at a time, divorced wife No. 4 before marrying pretty Habsah...