Word: nigerian
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...religion," says one of the Emir's former concubines, "says that a married woman should not go out." There are women on the streets of Kano in northern Nigeria but, as the saying goes, they are the young, the old, the poor, and the harlots. Most educated Nigerian men have no interest in emancipating their wives. "If you marry an educated woman, she wants to go out and work." explained a librarian working for the British Council. "If you let her, people talk against you. If you stop her, you have to buy her more things to keep...
Less than a month after Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed self-government for Eastern and Western Nigeria, the tropic Federation got its first Prime Minister and installed its first all-Nigerian Cabinet in the capital of Lagos, beside the tepid green waters of the Bight of Benin.* Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, a Northern Moslem, became Nigeria's first Prime Minister. In a graceful speech opening Parliament, Balewa paid tribute to British statesmanship and the service of Christian missionaries, spoke of the "tremendous good will" that existed between Britain and Nigeria, but emphasized that he and his ministers are" "irrevocably committed...
...tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops, after he had managed to shake hands with Khrushchev, the man turned out to be no assassin, but a Nigerian student on a round-the-world motor-scooter trip who had only wanted to hand Khrushchev a thank-you letter for his new Soviet visa...
...years since World War II, half a dozen new universities have sprung into being to provide training in arts and sciences to the sons of illiterate bushmen. In one of the largest of them, at Ibadan, an all-black Nigerian city of 459,000, eager young Africans full of ideas on how to remake the world adopt the manners and academic costumes of their distant white cousins at Oxford and Cambridge. The white man's faith has also come with him to temper with Christian mercy the harsh superstitions of native paganism: Catholicism in the Congo, Anglicanism in British...
...African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded his nation, and he is the first to admit it. "If the British were to leave tomorrow," says a leader of the Nigerian independence movement, "I would be the first one down on the docks asking them to leave their clothes and their shoes behind...