Word: nigerianism
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...Government spends less on education in Africa ($2,000,000 a year) than it does in any other area. Only now is the U.S. devising plans for scholarships for 150 Guinea students and 300 from the Congo. Mboya argues that such private-scholarship programs as the Nigerian plan are "too little and too selective...
...auto spare parts, fortnight ago advised the government export-promotion board that its products are now taboo in nine nations. Three weeks ago the delegates to the conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice that beginning next Oct. 1-its day of independence-no South African Airways planes will be permitted to land at Nigeria's big international airport at Kano...
...natives from an air-conditioned bus. Up at 6 every morning, boys and girls spent the long days chopping trees and shoveling dirt to hack out a road from a school to a chapel back in the bush. In credulous Africans followed them everywhere; a dozen English-speaking Nigerian students worked beside them, jabbering questions about life in the U.S. Asked if religion was anything of an issue among the students, one Moslem student exclaimed: "We are too happy with one another to worry about heavenly things...
...NIGERIAN BRANCH will be opened by Bank of America in Lagos next month, will be first U.S. commercial bank in Africa's most heavily populated country, which becomes independent...
...good organizations dabble at improving race relations, and individuals give their time to help run community centers and mixed black-and-white clubs. "But a lot of them make you feel as though you were receiving charity or as though you personally were a social problem," complained a Nigerian girl. Just before Parliament rose, Labor's Sir Leslie Plummer introduced a bill making it an offense to discriminate against colored people...