Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cecil B. DeMille," cracked one Western visitor, "eat your heart out!" For five hours last week, 20,000 dancers, 5,000 camel drivers and 3,500 horsemen gathered in the city of Kaduna for one of the biggest celebrations in the history of northern Nigeria. On hand to watch it were eight visiting heads of state; their Nigerian host, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo; and Andrew Young, Washington's new U.N. ambassador. Concluding his African odyssey, Young reached Nigeria in time to catch the finale of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture...
...Lagos, the Nigerian capital, Young caught one of the best shows of all, a dazzling performance by a collection of black dancers from all over the world (see color). More important, he managed to make the visit to Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation (estimated pop. 70 million), the most successful stop on his ten-day trip...
WHEN ANDREW YOUNG was in Africa last month, he proposed a new series of negotiations between Zimbabwean leaders, the five front-line states bordering Zimbabwe, Zaire, Nigeria, and the U.S. Smith's regime was entirely ignored in Young's proposal, a clear recognition that the real split is between the Zimbabweans, not between whites and blacks. The proposal has not been accepted yet, but it does not bode well for the future of a socialist state in Zimbabwe. Both Zaire and Nigeria--who have been excluded till now from negotiation proposals for Zimbabwe--are heavily in debt, and most...
...Ambassador Young's trip to Tanzania and Nigeria was a case in point of both the Administration's diplomatic exploration and of its early mistakes through inexperience. In his talks with black African leaders, Young hoped to find a common ground toward achieving a transfer to black majority rule in Rhodesia. But he undercut the seriousness of his mission by some ill-considered comments on a CBS interview show a few days earlier...
...Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq. Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. United Arab Emirates, Venezuela...