Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striped trousers looked dignified but inconspicuous. Their appearance reflected their role. They were lost among the multihued robes, top-heavy turbans and richly feathered headgear of ebony-featured emissaries who had been summoned to London to speed the independence of some 33 million ill-assorted black British subjects in Nigeria. The result will be the creation of the largest independent state in Africa, the fourth most populous in the Commonwealth...
...Britain that was holding the day back. "Any suggestion which I may put forward," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in a self-effacing welcome to the 70 delegates assembled around his oblong table, "will have but one object in view, the prosperity, good government and unity of Nigeria...
...Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite of some 3,000,000 Ibo tribesmen in the East; and last but far from least, the Moslem commoner Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, an oracle of moderation in a sea of local extremism, who might well wind up as Nigeria's first Prime Minister...
Walking cautiously along the forest trail blazed by the British in Ghana and Nigeria, France last week permitted its African citizens in the dank and sweaty Cameroons (pop. 3,300,000) to take a big step toward self-government. Under a law passed by the French Assembly (under which France still maintains firm control over the West African colony's foreign affairs, defense and money matters), the Cameroons became something called a "State Under Trusteeship." Last week ambitious and outspoken Andre-Marie Mbida,.an ardently anti-Communist Cameroonian tribesman who once studied for the Roman Catholic priesthood, took over...
...still dark forests, between the educated and uneducated, between tribe and tribe, between black, white and Asian. Proud white settlers in Rhodesia, who now consider themselves more African than European, refer contemptuously to their advanced black partners as "Fags," short for Federated African Gentlemen. The Moslem Fulani of Nigeria's north consider the energetic Ibos of the nationalistic, Christian and pagan east no better than barbarians...