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What Statesman Law calls "Commonwealth" practically all Britons call, without shame, "Empire." Colloquially, the Empire includes: 1) the Dominions of the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Eire); 2) the colonies and protectorates (Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, etc.); 3) India-the only realm of which George VI is actually Emperor. Total population: 557,000,000. (The world's population...
Prince A. A. Nwafor Orizu, son of British Colonial Nigeria's late Ezeugbonyamba I, the Obi of Nnewi, kept on looking for scholarships to U.S. colleges-not for himself, but for high-school graduates back home. An Ohio State University alumnus just awarded his M. A. by Columbia, Orizu told a Manhattan reporter that he had broken Nigerian traditions by getting his education in the U.S. (rather than in England), hoped other Nigerians would follow...
Opobo is a village on the Imo river in Nigeria. In 1873, when opening the country to trade, the British found it expedient to make Jaja, an ex-slave and a river pirate, King of Opobo. He turned out to be a bad king. He fought traders, intimidated natives, did his own buying and selling. He was seized and banished to the West Indies in 1887. Four years later he died. In 1892 the British Government was assessed for resultant damages, agreed to pay ?11,420 in 30 to 50 years. Last week British justice was done; Britain...
...Nigeria, British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...
...Axis broadcasters reported, with a great air of knowledge, that U.S. combat forces were massing in western Africa (see map): in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon. If so, then the U.S., for all military purposes, had taken over the great coastal belt embracing the Allied ports of Freetown, Takoradi, Lagos and Accra, feeding the new air and surface supply routes to Egypt, the rest of the Middle East and Russia. Furthermore, if the Axis was right, U.S. forces were moving into positions from which they could attack Dakar...