Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London this month Britons and Africans will sit down together to comb out the last snarls lying in the path of independence for the 31 million Africans of Nigeria. Their conversations have been speeded by the creation four months ago of the all-Negro Republic of Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast), whose U.S.-educated Premier Nkrunah has already moved into the residence of the departed British Governor General, leaving his old place to the Queen's new emissary...
...gentle, ruddy-faced man of 53 with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...
...issue was Zik's handling of the funds of the African Continental Bank, which he controls. Last January a tribunal headed by Nigeria's Chief Justice found that Zik, in his function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give...
...voting last week, Zik and his party picked up a probable 77 out of 84 seats in the Eastern Region's legislative assembly. Zik was already demanding full self-government for his third of the nation, no longer willing to wait for all of Nigeria to get its independence at once. Said the ever-cocky Zik: "After 96 years of tutelage, to say we cannot now run ourselves is a reflection not on the student but on the teacher...