Word: sweatpot
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Divided Into Three. So far, Britain's efforts to set Nigeria free have been hampered largely by the Nigerians themselves. Known to its intimates as Sweatpot-by-the-Sea, Lagos today is the capital of a loose federation of three largely autonomous regions: the rural Christian and pagan Eastern Nigeria of the Ibo tribesmen; the Christian and pagan West of the Yoruba, rich with cocoa profits; and the Moslem North of the Hausa and Fulani, where powerful emirs struggle to protect the traditions of a feudal past. Each section hates and distrusts the others. Her Majesty's government...
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