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...Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized-i.e., confiscated-the Egyptian press; and in Ceylon, a self-styled democracy, newly elected Prime Minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike threatened to seize the country's two largest news paper groups for opposing her during the campaign. Of 17 new African states, just one - Nigeria - was born with a free press...
Putting first things first, the Western and Eastern regions spent 40% of their budget on primary schools. But many primary teachers have only primary education-which measures the need for more secondary schools and colleges. Toward that end, Nigeria is now mulling a heady new plan, the work of a Carnegie-financed commission headed by Sir Eric Ashby, Master of Clare College, Cambridge University. The commission set out to imagine "Nigeria in 1980, a nation of some 50 million people, a voice to be listened to in the Christian and the Moslem worlds, a nation that is taking its place...
...didn't last. And Nigeria has at last warmed up to U.S.-style education. For years British-trained Nigerians chained students to a syllabus that taught all about 18th century England; they scorned as unfit for Nigeria the U.S. blend of liberal and practical schooling. That attitude is now dying. Converts include such once ferocious critics as the Western Region's former Education Minister Stephen Awokoya, who visited the U.S., changed his mind one night in a Boston hotel. Said he: "If this system of education can develop the highly admirable culture that exists in the U.S. today...
...Nigeria's Eastern Region has moved even faster toward U.S. ideas. Prime mover is the area's top politician, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, a Lincoln University product who is Nigeria's Governor General. Zik brought in the Michigan State education team (financed by the International Cooperation Administration) that set up the East's $30 million University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Starting with liberal arts, the school also aims to teach agriculture, engineering, science and education to 6,000 students in ten years...
...Specialists in a soft, syncopated West African dance that sprang up some five years ago, notably in Nigeria and Ghana. No two dancers use the same step. The music is any rolling, happy tune, though calypso makes a good accompaniment...