Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analytic essays take a step back from actual revolutionary experience, and raise some questions about revolution in general. In "Roots and Direction of Nigerian Revolution," F. Chukwuma Obinani shows that the political order must be relevant to economic needs. Obinani feels that the government was overthrown, although it maintained law and order, because the political system did not try to fulfill the economic needs...
Indeed, in taking the Rhodesia problem to the Security Council, Britain looked suspiciously as though it was simply passing the buck. The nation that only three decades ago ruled the world's mightiest empire had given a pitiful demonstration that, as one Nigerian put it, "it is unable to spank its own child...
...Europe, VOA remains second in credibility to the BBC, whose wartime broadcasts won it a lasting reputation for reliability. But it has greater respect in many parts of Africa, where, says a Nigerian newspaper editor, "it appears the BBC regrets that Britain ever abdicated power." In the credibility race, both friendly rivals far outdistance Radio Moscow and Radio Peking...
Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...
...Push Has Started." The Kano massacre was a critical blow to the at tempts of the Nigerian government to hold the country together. In the Ibo East, Military Governor Odumegwu Ojukwu ordered all members of outside tribes to leave the region immediately, announcing curtly that "I have lost confidence in my ability to continue restraining the violently injured feelings of the people of this region." Ojukwu also repeated his past threats to lead the East out of the Nigerian Federation entirely. "I have said before that the East would not secede unless she is forced out," he told the Ibos...