Word: nnewi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, is a tall, black, sober young man of 24 who calls himself "Prince Orizu." He uses the title only to impress whites with the fact that Africa has traditional governments of its own. His hearers are usually sufficiently impressed to ask what he is prince of. His answer: Nnewi...
...Nnewi is a progressive monarchy in the British Protectorate of Nigeria. A. A. Nwafor Orizu was offered its throne in 1938, on the death of his father, Ezeng-bonyamba I. Last week in his Manhattan office he explained why he hardly warmed the throne before turning it over to his brother. His ambition: to educate in turn: 1) Orizu, 2) Nnewi, 3) Nigeria, 4) Africa...
...African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools, 380,305 pupils. Nnewi and three other Nigerian states, he reports, have already contributed more than $120,000 for new colleges...
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...
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