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...party pattern that pervades Africa these days, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's strongman since last January's bloody coup that toppled Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, announced on television last week that the job of curing his country's "fatal maladies of the past" will take no less than three years...
...Nigeria's biggest malady, of course, has been the regionalism and tribal power blocs that always set one section of the country against another. To help knit Nigeria's parts into a whole, Ironsi abolished the old federation last week, substituted the "Republic of Nigeria," even decreed that "no reference to tribe or place of origin will appear in any official documents." In case anyone missed the point, he also banned the country's 107 political parties and tribal associations and prohibited the formation of new ones until he leaves power. Any of the dispossessed...
Surely it would have been possible to direct the contributions toward a more limited topic. Perhaps the magazine could have concentrated on a discussion of Rhodesia and South Africa, the plans and prospects for African unity, or the pattern of military coups revealed recently in Nigeria and Ghana. Instead the reader is confronted with all of these problems, plus an attempt to describe a comprehensive United States policy toward the entire African continent...
...Parry does not think that the new regime will institute any radical changes. "My son, who works for an oil company in West Africa, says that life has changed little in Nigeria since the revolt--the professional administrators and civil servants still run the country," he relates...
...economic exploitation and manipulation, cries of CIA conspiracies and engineered coups. Azikiwe maintains that the unrest in Ghana leading to Nkrumah's downfall was caused by an international capitalist 'cocoa conspiracy" which depressed the price of cocoa, Ghana's staple crop. Apparently the increased production of cocoa in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast had little to do with the falling price. Azikiwe is justified in condemning the mixture of "progressive and reactionary tactics" which the U.S. has employed in Africa, but his argument is weakened by his plea for the U.S. to channel aid through Britain and France. Would such...