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Word: oba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I Became King." Last week's melancholy debate was a sort of rehearsal for a big African conference to be held in London this September. Already, the vanguard of the African delegates had arrived. He was the Honorable Oba Aderemi, the Oni of Ife, whose 3,200,000 Yoruban subjects in Nigeria call him "The Fountain of Honor." The Oni sprayed good will around London, gave a fatherly pat to his youngest subject in England (see cut), and reminded Britons that for twelve years he was a railway clerk, signalman and traffic instructor. "I had to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Not Fine Pass Kerosene | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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