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...America at the age of 25, Athanassios Konstantinides, a poor Greek farmer in Asia Minor, made a vow to a 15-year-old girl. Never would he be "lured by an American beauty"; when his fortune was made, he would send back to the Turkish village of Yala-zik for his beloved Soultana, and they would be married. Soultana promised to wait for him. That...
...leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...
From London had come an Order in Council from Queen Elizabeth granting immediate home rule for Eastern and Western Nigeria. The cabled order caught Nigeria's regional premiers by complete surprise. Western Premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo was holidaying in Britain. Eastern Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe better known as "Zik" to his enthusiastic followers, was something less than exuberant. ''Falls so far short of the yearnings," complained his newspaper, "that it does not deserve to be noised abroad. The drums ought to be silent. The cymbals should be hidden away...
Actually, Zik's pique was probably directed less at the order providing home rule for only half of Nigeria than at the fact that if the rest of Nigeria gets home rule by 1960, he will probably not become independent Nigeria's first Prime Minister. Most likely to be chosen by the federal House of Representatives when it convenes next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks...
Balewa, who sent his mother to Mecca last year and has just completed an air pilgrimage there himself, is that rarity in Nigeria, a successful commoner in an area still controlled largely by sultans and emirs. He studied at London University, and while no demagogue like Zik, is just as firmly committed to full independence for all of Nigeria by 1960-a date London's Colonial Office regards as too soon. Says Balewa quietly...