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...DOORMAN Lagos, Nigeria British West Africa...
Thirty-five British colonies in five continents, and dotting the seven seas, are still ruled directly from Whitehall. Among them are the massive tracts of Tanganyika and Nigeria, the island arcs of the Solomons and the Lesser Antilles, such pinprick naval bases as Malta and Ascension (35 sq. mi.), which was administered for 107 years as one of Her Majesty's warships.* Britain's colonies were picked up, along with the commonwealth, in what the British like to call "a fit of absence of mind." Most of them were the concomitants of sea power and the search...
...much, it sparked no great boom, yet in copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, one town grew so fast that its public-health officials were temporarily officed in a disused public lavatory, with boards nailed over the toilet seats to provide desks and chairs. Across the continent, Gold Coast and Nigeria are becoming useful dollar earners and an important British market...
Missionaries & Prime Ministers. With its long line of missionaries, the university has had an international influence greater than any of its rivals. It has students from the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made...
...later, Campbell was on a plane bound for neighboring Uganda to report the story (TIME, Dec. 14.) Adds Campbell: "The Sudanese are not peculiar in their indifference to affairs beyond their borders. When you are in Accra, it is almost impossible to discover what is happening next door in Nigeria. When you move over to Lagos, you might be on another planet from Accra. Almost no news comes out of the Belgian Congo, French Africa or Portuguese Africa. If you want to find out what is happening there, you have to go in person...