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...robes as he read the news from the Congo. Laying a broad brown hand on his ample girth and stretching up to his full 6 ft. 3 in., Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, 51, the Sardauna of Sokoto, proudly told a Manhattan audience in clipped Oxford English: "But we in Nigeria are trained administrators. We have an old tradition. We inherited leadership from our ancestors. The blood of generations of leadership is in us, running in our veins...
...conference of African independent states at Addis Ababa voted unanimously to urge all emerging black governments to ban South African goods. The Nigerian government has already served notice that beginning next Oct. 1-its day of independence-no South African Airways planes will be permitted to land at Nigeria's big international airport at Kano...
...Ahmadu's bloodline runs back to his great-grandfather, who in 1802 carved out a Moslem empire through the mostly arid northern half of Nigeria. But Sir Ahmadu has brought off the neat trick of turning feudal domain into political machine. When the British called elections last December, as a first step toward independence, the Sardauna stumped the walled cities of the north in a campaign that included such innovations as helicopters, skywriting and more than one stuffed ballot box. His party won 142 out of 312 seats in the federal Parliament. Already Premier of the Northern Region...
United Nations officials pointed out that in the next General Assembly, the African-Asian group will be the U.N.'s largest single voting bloc. On Oct. 1, Nigeria, most populous (35 million) of all African states, joins the independence parade. Within two years, the U.N.'s last territories, Tanganyika, Ruanda-Urundi, and the British Cameroons, will get their freedom. Last week Mason Sears, longtime U.S. delegate to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, who has a special interest in Africa, cleaned out his desk and submitted his resignation. "In Africa," he said, "our job is done...
...Dreaming? The earnest delegates had come to discuss solidarity among the emerging states of Africa. But from the very first session in Addis Ababa's modern, glass-roofed Parliament Hall, the angry squabbling showed that the fond dream of unity was still a myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought...