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...story is narrated, Uncle Remus style, 75 years" later when Harlem is an old and established nation like Nigeria and Ghana. The narrator was a Harlem militiaman in the days of derring-do, but now he is full of "Well, honey's" and "byembys." The children at his knee are snotty little know-it-alls with African nationalist names: Jomo, Sekou, Mboya. But "Grandpa" fascinates them with stories of how Harlemites resisted all threats and blandishments, how they were impervious even to Radio Free Harlem, over which "Washington, D.C., Rose" seductively urged them to return to the comforts, clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Topical but Funny | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Kayode Eso, head of the Legal Division of the Ministry of Justice in western Nigeria, predicted that the "Goldwater incident" would alienate many "neutral" Nigerians from the West...

Author: By Wellington Danforth, | Title: Six International Seminar Panelists Dismayed by Goldwater Nomination | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Although King did not attempt to evaluate the project's effect so far, he observed that a comprehensive high school "represents an enormous step in the direction of democratization of secondary education" in Nigeria...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: King Asks More Aid from Faculty For Nigerian High-School Program | 4/16/1964 | See Source »

...told that our school may become a model not only for secondary schools in the Western region of Nigeria, but for other African countries as well," he said...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: King Asks More Aid from Faculty For Nigerian High-School Program | 4/16/1964 | See Source »

...medicine, for instance, the Africans have a great need for men who can specialize in preventive medicine and child health, Ashby said. Students in the major medical school in Nigeria were obliged to follow an inflexible course designed for an "affluent society with an infantile mortality among the lowest in Europe...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Ashby Cites Ill Effects in Africa Of Britain's Educational 'Elitism' | 4/9/1964 | See Source »

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