Word: nigerianism
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...moment we all become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...Africans also resent the fact that many U.S. Negroes look on them as curiosities straight from the African jungle. Said Sunday Nwokorie, a Nigerian studying at Atlanta University: "When I came here, Negro students asked me how many wives I had. Was I a village chief? Did I have snakes in my room? I found these questions were not intended to offend me. It was merely ignorance," Added Andrew Makhene of South Africa, another student at Atlanta University: "I have met several white college students in the South, and they never ask me such silly questions...
...many proposals for reform. In a General Assembly debate on the "liquidation" of the West's remaining colonies, more than 50 nations in four weeks argued over resolutions that ranged from Russia's strident demand that 1962 be the year for total elimination of colonialism to a Nigerian proposal to set a nine-year deadline for Africa-wide independence...
Ohiri was picked over Alan Young of Brown, the second-team center forward, even though the Nigerian Olympian was able to play in only three of Harvard's seven League contests. Despite his three crippling injuries--two pulled groin muscles and a slipped cartilage in the knee--Ohiri tied the League scoring record of eight goals...
...without Ohiri, who pulled a groin muscle, the picture is grim. Although it defeated a weak Columbia team 4 to 0, the Crimson fell apart without the Nigerian star in the Williams game, and lost 3 to 2. According to coach Bruce Munro, Ohiri is out for the rest of the season, and his appearance at Yale would have to be "a pleasant surprise." THE STANDINGS Team W L T GF GA TP Harvard 4 0 1 19 4 9 Brown 4 2 0 9 12 8 Yale 2 1 1 12 9 8 Princeton...