Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch by 3½-inch postcard, giving her impressions of Ibadan life...
...Peace Corps can expect more such fusses as it tries to aid the world's under developed lands. But even the case of Margery Michelmore contained encouraging signs. Whatever her indiscretion, Margery wrote without malice, reporting only what she had seen-and plenty of Nigerians realized it. Commented Columnist Tai Solarin in the Lagos Daily Times: "If she was out to ridicule the country, she would be intelligent enough to protect her stings with an envelope. But what she did was a jotting down on a postcard of what she saw. She was sure she was not discovering something...
First of all, I should say that I consider the anti-Peace Corps demonstrations by Nigerian students unfortunate, not because it provides unfavorable propaganda for the United States in context of the East-West power and ideological struggle, for this aspect of the problem doesn't particularly disturb me. Rather, it is an unfortunate event insofar as it represents one of the obstacles to the ability of the American people to assist in the human struggle for better standards of existence in underdeveloped countries...
Walker's letter, addressed to a California friend, was left behind at the home of a Nigerian family where he had been staying. His host had read the letter "out of curiosity," according to the Nigerian newspaper...
...paper claimed Walker had written that the "Nigerian people live daily with poverty and disease as well as with a corrupt and irresponsible government...