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Chukwuma Azikiwe '63, a guest of honor at the celebration, is typical of the Nigerian students in America. The son of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Governor-General who is responsible for many of Nigeria's expanding educational facilities, he is of many students enrolled in foreign universites to learn the skills needed for their country's development. Like most of his contemporaries studying abroad, Azikiwe attended grammar and secondary schools modeled on the British system, where he learned enough biology to become interested in the subject. On the advice of his father, himself U.S. educated--at Lincoln University, Columbia...
...such project is the Nigerian-American Scholarship Program, which brought Nigerians to the University this fall. Last year David D. Henry '41, Director of traveled to Nigeria with a committee to select 24 students to study in United States. Twenty-four colleges were involved in the program...
...final selection committee, largely of African educators, placed in a dozen Nigerian and wrote to hundreds of secondary schools. The response, according to J. Eberly, assistant dean of students, was "tremendous." More 1,000 students applied for the scholarships...
...other Nigerian freshman studying at the University in the intercollege program is Zacchaeus Okuroumnu '64. A Western Region native whose English I so rapid it is difficult to follow, Okuroumnu is cheerful about the program and about the University, which he calls "very nice...
...activities will include greater personal contact as well as advice on problems such as visas and housing. In addition, David D. Henry '41, the new Director of the Office, and Director of Admissions, is now visiting African countries in an effort to expand to other countries the Nigerian-American Scholarship Program in which 24 colleges now take part. The Office last year served 900 students in the University, about 130 of them in the College, and assisted 300 scholars visiting Harvard for research...