Word: nigeria
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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...
State of Emergency. The Southerner was Samuel Ladoke Akintola (B.A., Oxon), slick-talking Yoruba lawyer who had just resigned as Minister of Labor in Nigeria's 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...
...Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Siam, India (where he spent two weeks at the Lucknow meetings of he World Council of Churches), Egypt, then down the east coast of Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Rhodesia) to Johannesburg and up the west coast (the Belgian and French Congos, the Cameroons, Nigeria, the Gold Coast...
...Nigeria, larger than Texas and Oklahoma combined, is Britain's most populous (30 million) colony. It is driving hard for self-government (the British governor holds veto powers, but Nigerians, 95% of them illiterate, have elected their first "national" parliament). Population: a hodgepodge in which three tribes predominate. The Hausas in the north, who furnish the backbone of Britain's tough West African Rifles, are Moslems. The South is divided between the ex-cannibal Ibos and sturdy Yoruba farmers, whose ancient city, Ibadan (pop. 400,000), is the largest native city in Africa. Chief resources: tin, coal...
...Christian institution, Central College has always maintained that there should be no discrimination against any person because of race or color . . . The students from Nigeria have all the privileges accorded others, mixing freely with those of the Caucasian race in the dining hall and dormitories, and all other school activities. This, we believe, is the only position which may be taken, according to the Holy Scriptures...