Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Who was behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the...
A national election is a new thing, and millions have never voted before, but it did not take long for Nigerians to get into the spirit of it. When the Eastern Region Premier, Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe invaded Western Region territory to address one group of villagers, his opponents dismantled the...
Ganging Up. Nigeria is divided into three parts. The Ibo of the East and the Yoruba of the West hate one another and scorn the less advanced Northerners. It is the North, with its huge area and heavy Moslem population, led by the turbaned Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu...
But it is the rabble-rousing Zik who may wind up running the show. Last year he journeyed north to the Sardauna's palace with a proposal to work together to defeat Awolowo. The Sardauna was happy to cooperate, for he bitterly hates Awolowo, who for years has urged...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman...