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Four members of the seminar were elected by a Nigerian commission to serve in various capacities in Nigeria and others may participate in Teachers for East Africa, a project in Guinea, and in other areas depending on their performance on the Peace Corps secondary school teachers exam to be held June...
...million-nearly one-quarter of its total investment-on Africa. An empire in its own right, the United Africa Co. operates in 29 African countries, sells more than 4,000 items, ranging from "mammy cloths" (cotton prints) to bulldozers. It runs an assembly plant for General Motors in Nigeria, has its own fleet of river boats, and tends more than 418,000 acres of palm-tree plantation. In 1960, despite Africa's political travail. United Africa had its best year, boosted its sales to $616 million, an increase of $53 million over...
...company has also won favor by its longstanding commitment to racial equality. Even before World War II, United Africa began moving Africans into executive posts; today, virtually all the managers of United Africa stores are African. In Ghana and Nigeria, Africans sit on the company's local board of directors. To train its African executives, who are paid on the same salary scale as Europeans, United Africa sends them to company schools-the newest of which, a $500,000 management center, opened last week in the Nigerian capital of Lagos...
Chosen: the West. As chief of by far the most populous country represented. Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did most of the talking. The participants agreed on their "unswerving loyalty'' to the U.N. They censured the arrest of Katanga's Moise Tshombe in the Congo, nuclear testing, South Africa's racial policies. They laid the groundwork for technical and economic cooperation, scheduled a second meeting in Lagos later this year. But as Houphouet-Boigny planned, the conference was primarily an initial, amiable stab at getting acquainted...
...precise (C. L. Sulzberger's What's Wrong with Our Foreign Policy) or imprecise (The Ugly American) terms with the weaknesses of American policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America. There have also been some admirable studies of individual countries and areas, like James P. Coleman's work on Nigeria. Another approach is the general historical and political study of nationalism in the old colonial areas (Rupert Emerson's From Empire to Nation). A fourth and final technique emphasizes the problems and processes of economic development...