Word: nigeria
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Among other Experimenters to "pioneer" countries, Michael A. Curran '60 will be a member of the Experiment's first group to Cracow, Poland, and Thankful D. Bailey '61 will be the first Radcliffe Experimenter to travel to Nigeria. The Experiment awarded a Stettenheim scholarship to John Cherubini '60 for his trip to Italy...
...three hours at Kaduna. 3,000 turbaned horsemen, 7,000 warriors in medieval chain mail, archers, lancers, musketeers, musicians, dancers, tumblers and snake charmers paraded by. The durbar celebrated self-government for northern Nigeria, the last step before Nigeria as a whole-now a federation of three regions, each with its own Premier-would become independent within the Commonwealth in 1960. "The future may not be easy for you," warned the Queen of England through her uncle. "You have a heavy task before...
Just what sort of future Nigeria actually has will largely depend upon the regal host of last week's durbar, the aristocratic Premier of the Northern Region, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. Since Nigeria is the most populous (35 million) of Britain's African territories, whoever becomes its first federal Prime Minister after independence is potentially the most important politician in Africa. And no one will have more to say about who that man will be than the Sardauna of Sokoto...
...Sardauna is a direct descendant of the fabled Fulani Imam who in 1802 launched the holy war that eventually brought northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around...
...aside. But the great majority are not of that school." The Sardauna seems to have no desire to become federal Prime Minister himself, would apparently prefer to become a Sultan like his great-grandfather. He has already haughtily declared that he would leave the less lofty job of Nigeria's Prime Minister "to one of my lieutenants...