Word: solarin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment we all become gentlemen, this country is dead," says Nigerian Schoolmaster Tai Solarin. As founder of the Mayflower School in Ikenne, Western Nigeria, he is dedicated to destroying the educated Nigerian's British-bred notion that the ideal product of education is a black gentleman in a white collar...
...expect more such fusses as it tries to aid the world's under developed lands. But even the case of Margery Michelmore contained encouraging signs. Whatever her indiscretion, Margery wrote without malice, reporting only what she had seen-and plenty of Nigerians realized it. Commented Columnist Tai Solarin in the Lagos Daily Times: "If she was out to ridicule the country, she would be intelligent enough to protect her stings with an envelope. But what she did was a jotting down on a postcard of what she saw. She was sure she was not discovering something...
...principal will discuss the problems and opportunities of teaching in his country with students interested in the Harvard "youth corps" project. He will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the Quincy House Junior Common Room. Under the sponsorship of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee for a Youth Service Project, Tai Solarin, principal of the Mayflower Secondary School, will attempt to provide "a clear picture of what joining the project will entail," according to Michael M. Hornblow '62, vice-chairman of the group...