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Around the world, heads turned toward the sovereign nation in its infancy—especially Harvard’s. Earlier that spring, Harvard was one of about 20 American colleges to lay the groundwork for the Nigerian-American Scholarship Program, a year-long pilot project that provided four-year scholarships...
Christian L. Ohiri ’64—a varsity soccer star who still holds school records for all-time goals, goals in a game, and consecutive games with a goal—was chosen that year. After Ohiri’s untimely death in 1966, Harvard?...
“There was this notion that African countries would be less dependent on colonial powers and become their own bosses,” said Seamus P. Malin ’62, a former Harvard admissions officer who was a senior midfielder when Ohiri joined the varsity team as...
“Student exchange was a way to help train for the future—that was very much the inspiration,” Malin said.
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...