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...which asks $520-and most page rates are much lower. One of the African's favorite pastimes is listening to the radio; a company can sponsor a half-hour show on the Western Nigerian radio for $28, a half-hour show on the Liberian radio for $13.44. Open-air cinemas are also an important advertising medium, where for $11.20 a company can sandwich a three-minute commercial film between movies...
...Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, K.B.E., 47, is Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous (35 million) nation, which will get its independence next Oct. 1. His name comes from the little village of Tafawa Balewa in the Northern Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area's only...
...with the purpose of fighting against self-rule for Nigeria, not for it. He insisted that the north, lacking educated leaders, was not ready, and even threatened a jihad (holy war) against the more advanced Ibo and Yoruba tribesmen of the south if the British walked out and left Nigerians to rule themselves. But a visit to the U.S. in 1955 as Nigeria's Minister of Works convinced him that widely differing nationalities could live together in peace. "Until then, I assure you that I did not believe in anything like a Nigerian nation," he says...
...Nigerian Moslems, heady with a December election victory that kept their Moslem Prime Minister in power, this rebuff was evidence that the Graham crusade (actually planned long before) had been staged to help put the Christians in political control. Moslem pamphlets circulated during Graham meetings, presenting "Five Points to Remember: Jesus was not the Son of God, did not die on the Cross, was not resurrected, did not go to heaven, will not return...
Billy did not reply, but for a time tempers boiled in statements and counterstatements between Nigerian Christian and Nigerian Moslem. This week things quieted down as Evangelist Graham took some time off for rest and a trip to visit Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Lambar...