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Aaron A. Estis '80, an Afro-Am concentrator, said the appointment was "one step forward for two steps backward" since Ewart Guinier, the only professor tenured solely in Afro-Am, retired last semester, and K. Onwuka Dike, the only tenured professor specializing in African history, will return to Nigeria next year...
...surprisingly, bank officers are beginning to draw grim little circles around those areas of the globe that they no longer consider good credit risks. Reports TIME'S European economic correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer from Brussels: "In black Africa, no nation with the possible exception of Nigeria, an oil exporter, is still considered a good credit bet. Apart from Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, and Malaysia, all of the Far East is out. In South America, only Brazil and Venezuela, another major oil producer, can still count on jumbo loans. For most of the developing world, the borrowing spree is just...
...most bizarre diplomatic mission in recent U.S. history. Two weeks ago, Jimmy Carter asked former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali to undertake a five-nation African tour (Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, Liberia and Senegal) as his special representative to seek support for a boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games. Ali, who was traveling in India, accepted the assignment. By the time he had spent an hour on African soil, however, he was floundering like a Golden Gloves novice against a ring-wise...
...abroad--vie for the services of young people like Rozzell and Rose. Part of the function of conferences like the Urbanas is to link students with these boards, which then help the students choose the program best suited to their interests and talents. Before students are sent to Nigeria or Borneo, they often participate in one of the many missionary training programs sponsered by the International Fellowship. Schloss Mittersill, a castle in Austria, is the Fellowship's training headquarters, where students from six continents take courses in "Christian living" and the Bible...
...Zion non-profit Charitable Trust, which is raising $6 million for the development of housing, a shopping center and tutorial assistance for youth in the area. These local accomplishments pale, however, next to Sullivan's Opportunities Industrialization Centers (OIC's). Located in 140 communities across America and parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Kenya, also assisted with corporate backing, the centers train the unemployed in skills such as auto body repair, carpentry, computer operation...