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...proposal for a Harvard "youth corps"--projected to send at least 12 seniors to teach in Nigeria next year--will be the subject of a questionnaire distributed in House dining halls today...
...plan designed to send Harvard graduates to teach secondary school in Nigeria would be in the best interests of the new nation, Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, said last night. Keppel was a member of the Ashby Commission, an international group of experts which presented recommendations for Nigeria's educational system to the country's new federal government...
...Ashby Commission's proposal would be a self-sufficient Nigerian secondary school system by 1970. Nigeria would send its natives abroad to be trained for high school teaching at the rate of 600 a year for seven years. By 1966, American-and British-educated Nigerians would be returning to their country in fairly large numbers, and the need for imported instructors would steadily decrease...
...tribute to this involuntary ally against colonialism, the flag of Nigeria's Western Region today bears a symbolic mosquito...
...designing their flags, some nations depended on individual inspiration, others on committees and contents. Nigeria held a competition that drew 2,870 entries. The winner: a 22-year-old Nigerian student in Britain who had never designed anything before. The involved banner of the Central African Republic was designed by its Premier Barthélémy Boganda, who was later killed in an air crash (TIME, April 13, 1959). The problems faced by the 18 new nations, and by nations yet unborn, were summed up by an official of the Malagasy Republic. "It was very hard to find...