Word: nigerianism
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...wants Lagos to become a federal capital, "like Washington," electing its own representatives (whom he would control) without reference to Awolowo, in whose territory it sits. Lyttelton gave his blessing to the idea of a Nigerian D.C., and the result was that Dr. Zik suddenly proclaimed himself an "I-Like-Lyttelton" man. Awolowo's reaction was to blast the burly Tory as "a Machiavellian divider and ruler," and to threaten to pull Yoru-baland out of the federation...
Lyttelton's Churchillian cigar brought Awolowo to his senses. At week's end it was still unsmoked, and the conference had approved: 1) financial arrangements for an all-Nigerian government; 2) a reorganization of its cocoa-marketing board, which has a financial half nelson on the world's chocolate prices. Proposed solution for Lagos: federal status, with its own special minister, independent of both Zik and Awolowo...
From Johannesburg, South Africa, Correspondent Alexander Campbell reports that of the 15,000 miles he has flown this year, the strangest trip was from the Gold Coast capital Accra to the Nigerian capital Lagos: "I flew by West African Airways, whose emblem is a flying elephant. The passengers were mostly natives. The men wore fezzes and flowing robes, or sun helmets and white shirts hanging outside their pants. The women wore print dresses, with the luggage balanced on their heads and babies slung on their backs. The plane was also packed with freight, including crates of squawking chickens. This packed...
Another unusual map, in the reception room, has no continental outlines, but shows only the world's major routes of communication. Hand-tooled in Nigerian goatskin, the map covers nearly 350 square feet. The legend underneath it says, in part: "The map above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed...
...mobilized alternative, as it is in Malaya or Iran; there is still time. It is in the jubilant, blossoming Gold Coast, and in its hero Nkrumah, that some of Africa's awakening millions see the early light of freedom dawning over the continent. "In Africa today," said Nigerian Commerce Minister A. C. Nwapa in a BBC broadcast, "the sun is rising not in the East but in the West . . ." The Colonial Office agrees: "The Gold Coast is talked about with surprise in Johannesburg slums, among tribes outside Nairobi longing for more land, and in Uganda where men nurse secret...