Word: nigerias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...founding of the Organization for African Unity in 1963, have been fulfilled. Black Africa is embarking on its second decade of independence with a more realistic outlook and sounder, brighter hopes of genuine progress. But the prediction that the Duke of Gloucester offered to the leaders of Nigeria in 1959 still rings true: "The future may not be easy. You have a heavy task before...
Uneven Leadership. Since then, civil wars have ravaged two of Black Africa's biggest, most populous and potentially richest nations, the Congo and Nigeria. No fewer than 28 countries have experienced either a coup or a serious disturbance. Ten have been forced to call in foreign troops for help. Last month Guinea was invaded by a 350-man band that may have included Portuguese troops as well as Guinean dissidents...
...Hamani Diori and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, like Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, is an elder statesman who has imposed a degree of stability on his heterogeneous country. Of the soldiers who now rule nine African nations, at least two-Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon and the Congo's Joseph Mobutu-have restored order to their countries after years of chaos...
...early 1960s, when Pan-Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs!" at white passersby...
...lure for passengers from abroad, Greyhound sells a $99 foreign-tour ticket that allows non-Americans to travel anywhere on the system for up to 30 days. Meanwhile, the line has started to serve foreigners where they live. It launched a subsidiary in Korea last spring and another in Nigeria last month...