Word: nigerianization
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Johnson's big trouble was that so many of the good things in life are not really free. Bamu, for example. She was a real Nigerian beauty, "with a skin as pale and glistening as milk chocolate, high, firm breasts, round, strong arms." Johnson, "black as a stove," all floppy arms and legs, and with a body "as narrow as a skinned rabbit's," tried to soften up Bamu with sweet talk: "What pretty breasts-God bless you with them." But Bamu could not be honeyed, she had to be bought. After a full day of hysterical bargaining...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
...When a Nigerian says "fine pass" he means very good quality. When he says "fine pass kerosene" he means the very best. The British Labor government's high-minded intentions toward its African empire were certainly "fine pass kerosene"; but its performance was "soso talk" (ineffectual messing around...
Last week the House of Commons took stock of the government's African policy. Before it lay a scathing report of an all-party Estimates Committee which had examined on the spot a $220 million plan for Nigerian development. The committee found (and the Commons debate tended to confirm): "[The plan] does not propound a complete strategy of development. It is merely an aggregate of proposals for spending the money. If the ten-year plan were carried out overnight . . . improvement . . . would be barely perceptible...
...Socialists, the Laborites were committed to planning for Africa. Commented a Tory M.P., Arthur Douglas Dodds Parker, in last week's debate: "With all their talk, Socialist plans are very scanty." Sample: the planners expected that by now they would be getting greatly increased production of Nigerian coal, peanuts and palm kernels. They neglected to provide increased transportation to move in these products. An order for 20 locomotives for Nigeria was given priority rating three years ago, but it had slipped behind 50 non-priority locomotives which the manufacturer wanted to deliver first for Britain's own railroads...