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...half-million Moslems of Ibadan in Western Nigeria have two heroes: Hogan Bassey, the Nigerian boxer who is featherweight-champion of the world, and Ade-goke Adelabu, 43, a spellbinder whose Ibadan People's Party is their first line of defense against surrounding .tribes. The latest ring victory of their first hero (see SPORT) was not enough to compensate last week for what happened to their second...
Ricardo ("Pajarito") Moreno, 21, idol of Mexico, flung his 125 lbs. out of his corner and rocked World Featherweight Champion Hogan Bassey with a couple of punches that hung the little Nigerian rubber-legged on the ropes. "Stop zee fight! Stop zee fight before he keels heem!" screamed Pajarito's souped-up fans...
...Member of the Order of the British Empire, an honor bestowed four months ago by Queen Elizabeth for Bassey's services to Nigerian sports...
...Nigerian girl who has broken with tradition is 21-year-old Zeinab Wali, a slim, golden-skinned girl of Tripolitanian Arab stock. Zeinab married a young government official when she was 17. Normally, she would have gone into kulle, the Nigerian equivalent of purdah. Instead, she returned to school (something few if any Nigerian women in Kano had ever done before), took her teacher's certificate and now spends her time demonstrating her conviction that a woman can be a good Moslem without vegetating in purdah...
...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...