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...Nigeria formally severed with the British Empire following 160 years of colonial rule, and soon thereafter appointed Nnamdi Azikiwe its head of state. As fanfare and festivities erupted that week in the city of Lagos, roughly 30 Nigerian students attending universities in the Boston area celebrated remotely, alongside then-Harvard undergraduate Chukwuma B. Azikiwe ’63, son of the man who would soon take the helm of the most populous nation in Africa...
Harvard Director of Admissions David D. Henry ’41 flew to Nigeria in June of 1960 to hand-pick the students who would be granted admission...
...students Henry selected rose to prominence both at Harvard and in Nigeria...
Despite the fact that she is the daughter of Nigerian immigrants and not from Nigeria herself, Braimah still shares a common burden with many students from developing countries: the pressure to study a “practical” field, such as medicine, science, or engineering...
Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, born in Nigeria and now a professor of philosophy at Wellesley, is the owner of the oft-overlooked Grolier Poetry Book Shop, nestled behind the more prominent Harvard Bookstore...