Word: nigerianization
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Following Gunther, Cloete flew to West Africa. But where Gunther highlights its progress, Cloete probes deeper and finds that everywhere the savage past impinges on the present. Between 1945 and 1948, Nigerian leopard-men clawed 196 people to death in a single district. White officials recently arrived at a chieftain's funeral to find the coffin unscrewed and the African guests engaged in eating the corpse (necrophagy is still common in Africa...
...after World War II when soldiers came home with the Crown's mustering-out pay in their pockets. Soon they had to pay as much as $600 for an educated girl, $450 for an illiterate. Since this was far beyond the means of the average young tribesman, the Nigerians asked their British rulers to impose price controls on wives. The British stiffly refused. Last week a committee appointed by the Eastern Nigerian government to bring some relief to Nigerian males recommended: 1) a ceiling of $84 per wife, with installment payments permitted; 2) only one to a customer...
Probably you were actuated by good intentions, but the expression "tribe," like "native," is objectionable to us Africans and especially to Nigerians from densely-populated and well-established societies. What you describe as "tribal" robe is more correctly one kind of national robe or dress, and although I happen to be an Owerri Ibo, and a hereditary leader or chieftain from Obibi-Ezena, a territory in Owerri Division, my hopes for the future are for one Nigerian nation...
...present he is completing his studies for two more advanced degrees--a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, operated jointly by the University and Tufts. Then, as the first Nigerian with that many Harvard degrees, he intends to return to Africa to help serve his people...
Most of the University's foreign students probably dream at times of an eventual career in politics or government service. But Ph.D. candidate Eze Anyanwu Oguen II of Obibi-Ezena, Nigeria, has already realized that ambition in spectacular fashion--at 24 he is a Nigerian tribal chieftain, the hereditary ruler of thousands of Africans...