Word: nigerianism
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...offing. A battalion of Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province, killing none of the enemy but blasting innocent tribesmen and a missionary medical station...
...Nigerian Program...
...Nigerian secondary school principal will discuss the problems and opportunities of teaching in his country with students interested in the Harvard "youth corps" project. He will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. Under the sponsorship of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Project, Tai Solarin, principal of the Mayflower Secondary School, will attempt to provide "a clear picture of what joining the project will entail," according to Michael M. Hornblow '62, vice-chairman of the group...
...inquisitive Africans sallied through the U.S. South last week to tour the hottest hotspots of racial strife. Mainly graduate students at California campuses, and sponsored by Stanford University's Institute of International Relations, they went armed with cameras, typewriters, a tape recorder, and nervous expectations. Scribbled Nigerian Engineer Lewis Chik-wendu, 26, as the plane headed south: "I expect we shall be mobbed in certain states, and if care is not taken, we may be rough-handled...
Black Africans in Moscow encounter little pure racial prejudice, but they have had some disillusioning encounters with the Russian police state, which contrasts badly even with their memories of colonial regimes in Africa. In a recent series of articles in the Lagos Sunday Times, Nigerian Student Chukwuemeke Okonkwo told how he rushed to Moscow in 1957, to find that Russian students were awed by "our easy manner, our gaiety and our open debates." When the Russians started imitating Africans at Moscow University, down rattled the Iron Curtain. Africans were segregated, jazz records were banned, free debates were outlawed, dates with...