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...Moslem north, whose 16 mil lion are ruled by Moslem Emirs; the southwest, where the Yoruba people, led by Barrister Obafemi Awolowo, make their headquarters in the world's largest Negro city, Ibadan (pop. 459.000); and the southeast, which is Ibo-land, presided over by big-eared Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, the flamboyant, U.S.-educated newspaper publisher whose oratory sways the Lagos mob. Usually, Ibo and Yoruba make common cause against the Moslem north; but last week their leaders were feuding over the flourishing port of Lagos...
...casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik...
...with the revolution." They told about their Nigerian friends who study in Communist countries, come back home "with plenty of money for political activity" and hot with praise for the Communists. They read Rozella an editorial from the West African Pilot, written by their hero, Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as "Zik." Zik, they said, is a nonCommunist, but he hates the U.S. for its segregation, and writes that Communism is the form of government most likely "to ensure equality of freedom to all peoples...
...Zik's dream is Nigerian independence. He would like to see it come in a 15-Year Plan: ten years of equal British-Nigerian government, then five years of Nigerian government with Britain standing by. Next to that he wants the country developed industrially. He doubts that the present-day Briton will do it. "The type of Britons who come . . . now," he says, "are not as intelligent as those who came before. Either we have progressed or they have degenerated...
...Gentleman & a Student. When Zik leaves the U.S. in four weeks, he will join six other Nigerians in England for a barnstorming tour to tell the Nigerian story. He hopes to say a few words about his preference for the next Governor of Nigeria. If it must be an Englishman, Zik hopes it will be the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), whom he considers "a gentleman, a student of human nature, a man with a sense of justice." But in the long run he wants an African governor for Nigeria and, like the Pirates on the day he arrived...