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Harvard Director of Admissions David D. Henry ’41 flew to Nigeria in June of 1960 to hand-pick the students who would be granted admission.
Ohiri was one of the first participants in what would become the African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU), an initiative to provide higher education for people of the increasing number of independent African countries. The program ran from 1961 to 1975, and facilitated full scholarships to American universities for...
Ohiri played for the Nigerian Olympic soccer team at the 1960 games in Rome, where he scored two goals during the qualifying rounds. He had also qualified for the Olympics in the triple jump—which he turned down to focus on soccer—but would go on...
Though Ohiri and the other Nigerian recruits were not the first students to attend Harvard from Nigeria—Malin said he recalls admits in the classes of 1954 and 1959—there was an expectation that the handful of African students selected each year would return to their...
Zacchaeus O. Okurounmu ’63—now known as Olufemi Okurounmu—one of the other Nigerian students selected by Henry, graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in engineering. In an interview with The Crimson immediately following Nigerian independence in 1960, Okurounmu said that his...