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...months, Lt. Col. Tokubu Gowon, head of Nigeria's military government, has been struggling to prevent tribal antagonisms from ripping apart his West African nation. Until two weeks ago, his efforts seemed futile. The leaders of Nigeria's four ethnic regions seemed unable to agree on a place to meet, much less on a way to keep the tottering federal government on its feet. Then, suddenly, Gowon and the four regional heads dropped everything and took off for Accra, Ghana. After two whirlwind days of secret negotiations at one of Kwama Nkrumah's old villas, the five men, gushing optimism...
...regional tribe loyalties and mass feeling for a centralized policy. Obinani does not see, however, that as the government fulfills stated economic needs, new needs are inevitably generated. This is the "revolution of rising expectations." Since no government can possibly keep pace with increasing demands of the people, can Nigeria have a stable policy for any length of time...
...Gordon does not discuss the problems of actually establishing his criterion of participatory democracy. For such a criterion to work in America or a developing country, potentially mobile individuals would have to reject assimilation into white middle-class culture or a Western-type elite in a country like Nigeria. Independence from larger society or other countries might requite considerable courage and deprivation. For the larger society may not grant the Negroes or Nigerians what they ask for, and these groups connot accept unsolicited...
...contradiction of revolution: in order to make a fundamental change in society, a revolutionary movement may have to use the existing structure of power to some degree. But Epps does not discuss this contradiction in depth. All the other essays in this issue hit at the same contradiction. In Nigeria, Tanzania, and the American Civil Rights movement, people want to gain independence, but they need help from larger society. At some point revolutionary movements may have to compromise their radicalism in order to succeed. Still they must hold off compromise as long as possible to attain independence...
...black African states, which had argued for a week for stronger stuff, were predictably unhappy. "The resolution is defective," said Nigeria's moderate Ambassador Chief S. O. Adebo. Leading the chorus of complaint was Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko. who picked up some political change in Africa by abstaining-along with Bulgaria and Mali-on the ground that the sanctions did not go far enough. France also abstained from voting, but for a different reason: in the opinion of General de Gaulle, Rhodesia is strictly a British problem and outside U.N. jurisdiction...