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That is a tall order, but Gardiner is a moderate among native African leaders. In nearby Nigeria lives a more extreme and more important Negro spokesman, the fabulous Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as "Zik." In the 1920s, Zik stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which...
...pattern of native rivalry shows in Nigeria, too. Most of Zik's followers are members of the Ibo tribe. The British say that their departure would bring the Moslem Hausa tribe down from the north to dominate the Ibos and Yorubas. (That the British have sometimes encouraged such dissension does not obviate the fact that fierce quarrels among the colonial peoples break out even where the British do their level best to create unity among native groups...
...Retreat. In Nigeria, on the underside of western Africa's Atlantic bulge, the British might have a shipping and supply contact either with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road...
...sometimes limited by Sidky's bladder trouble), embarrassed Britain by letting his spokesman claim that Bevin had promised Egypt sovereignty over Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. A quick denial came from the British, who had no intention of surrendering military or administrative control of this northernmost link in the prospective Nigeria-Kenya chain...
...doubly rewarded for his international plugging of "equal justice for all"; the African Academy of Arts and Research presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...