Word: nigerianism
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Nigeria too has decentralized education; "the central government minds its own business," said Augustine Nwachukwu, an administrative officer of the Eastern Nigerian government. He went on to discuss the problems of administering the three states which make up Nigeria. The government strives to let each maintain its cultural distinctiveness...
...decided to form a branch of the church in Nigeria, and wrote for more information to Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders sent back books explaining their laws and doctrines, and in 1959 dispatched to Africa Elder Lamar Williams, who was much impressed by the Nigerians' zeal and orthodoxy. Since then, the Nigerian Saints, governed by Obot and a council of 75 elders, have established branches in six cities...
Church chiefs are somewhat at a loss on how to deal with their new African converts, especially since the Nigerian government will not give resident visas to any missionaries from the U.S. "This is quite a unique situation," admits Hugh D. Brown, Mormon first counselor. One problem now is that in the absence of supervision from Utah the Nigerian Saints appear to be deviating somewhat from strict adherence to revelation. Some Nigerian Mormons practice polygamy-forbidden in the U.S. church since 1890-and the converts already seem to have established their own black hierarchy, priests...
Soyinka, a contemporary Nigerian playwright, novelist and poet takes as his plot the attempts of a fraudulent religious prophet to win people to his Christian teachings by promising them worldly benefits: to one, a prime-ministership, to another, the position of head clerk. Each character is pious on the surface but greedy, lusty and ambitious on the inside, and the most humorous moments come when these inner feelings are most bluntly and frankly expressed as when the phony prophet's disciple, Chume, whose principal desire in life is to beat his wife, pleads with his mentor, "Just once! Just once...
Some, of course, came to prey as well as pray. Sixty Nigerian Moslems were arrested for smuggling kola nuts, an illegal stimulant, into Saudi Arabia; police thoughtfully escorted the offenders through the hajj ritual, then brought them back to Jeddah for prosecution...