Word: nnamdi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chukwuma Azikiwe '63, a guest of honor at the celebration, is typical of the Nigerian students in America. The son of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Governor-General who is responsible for many of Nigeria's expanding educational facilities, he is of many students enrolled in foreign universites to learn the skills needed for their country's development. Like most of his contemporaries studying abroad, Azikiwe attended grammar and secondary schools modeled on the British system, where he learned enough biology to become interested in the subject. On the advice of his father, himself U.S. educated--at Lincoln University, Columbia...
...show up at New York's Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...