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Four members of the seminar were elected by a Nigerian commission to serve in various capacities in Nigeria and others may participate in Teachers for East Africa, a project in Guinea, and in other areas depending on their performance on the Peace Corps secondary school teachers exam to be held June...
...Nigeria, Africans sit on the company's local board of directors. To train its African executives, who are paid on the same salary scale as Europeans, United Africa sends them to company schools-the newest of which, a $500,000 management center, opened last week in the Nigerian capital of Lagos...
Another group has responded to invitations from West Nigeria to teach in grammar schools in the city of Lagos. Independent of the Peace Corps, this program results primarily from a Nigerian recruiting mission which visited the United States last year. Monro estimated that three or four students have definitely decided to participate...
There have been some encouraging results: the Nigerian ambassador has finally found a suitable embassy; the ambassador of Mali, previously frustrated in his attempt, can now establish a chancery in a selected residential zone. But the struggle continues. Says one State Department official: "Our job is to assure that foreign policy is carried out by the President and State Department and not impaired by the actions of a barber on Connecticut Avenue or a restaurant owner in Maryland...
...process to weed out potential "failures." This period would be used for study of both African and American culture, comparative analysis of American, British, and African schools, and an introduction to educational strategy, psychology, and measurement. Ideally, this would be followed by a full term of practice teaching in Nigerian schools...