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...never before been shown outside Nigeria. For several hundred years, it has sat overlooking a remote reach of the Niger, venerated by the Tada villagers who believe that the legendary hero Tsoede brought it to protect them from misfortune. African scholars consider it the finest surviving example of the Yoruba court art that flourished at the religious center of Ife 1,000 years ago, when Europe was still sunk in the darkness of the Middle Ages...
Groaning Lorries. The bedraggled caravans are filled with Hausa tribesmen in flowing white robes, bare-breasted Yoruba women from Nigeria, Malian water carriers, Upper Voltan gold miners, Ivorean timber merchants and beggars of all nationalities. The luckier ones started out in trucks or wood-frame "mammy wagons" whose fares have jumped more than 400% since the exodus got under way. For many, travel by whatever means stopped at the border. Groaning lorries carrying homeward-bound Nigerians and Dahomians are stalled in columns miles long because they have not received permission to cross tiny Togo. An unknown number of people have...
Dead Center. Like their parent organization, a former street gang in Chicago, most of the New York Lords are nominal Catholics. But the Lords' "Information Minister," known simply as Yoruba, 20, denies any bias in seizing the church of a Spanish-speaking Protestant minority. The Lords cite its strategic location in East Harlem-"dead center"-and maintain that while most area churches have attempted some sort of social-action programs, First Methodist "hasn't done a thing...
Gowon also has to deal with Hausa-Yoruba feuds that even the war emergency has not laid to rest. Observers, some with government jobs and official contacts, have said that when the Ibos seceded, the Yorubas would have gone with them, but Yorubaland was quickly occupied by the Nigerian army...
Government printing centers publish enormous amounts of propaganda, most of it directed against Ojukwu, but a recent broadside from the Ministry of Information in a northern city attacked the pretentious inellectuals of southern groups (Yoruba...