Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibition will present several categories of art: South African rock art. bronzes from the former Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria, brass and iron work, sculpture of West and Central Africa. ceremonial masks of Africa, and Poro society masks from Liberia...
...Fellows for 1969-70 include a colonel in the U.S. Army who commanded a brigade in Vietnam, a U.S. Navy captain, a former president of the Central Bank of Brazil, an AID specialist on Nigeria, and a cabinet minister from Ghana...
Biafra, which had previously rejected both conditions, finally agreed to the daylight flights but remained adamant against landings in Nigeria. "What's to prevent them," asked a Biafran official, "from seizing a Red Cross plane, loading it with fifty commandos and forcing the crew to take them to Uli to destroy it?" The Biafrans also fear that newsmen and other Western observers will be removed from such planes, thereby depriving Biafra of badly needed foreign publicity...
Pressure on Oil. Under such circumstances, the talks on resuming the flights remained stalemated-as does virtually everything else about the two-year-old war. Neither army is able to mount a consistent offensive. Pope Paul, during his African visit, was unable to bring Ojukwu and Nigeria's leader, General Yakubu Gowon, to a bargaining table. Neither were Harold Wilson, Charles de Gaulle or Haile Selassie, who heads the Organization of African Unity, which meets next month in Addis Ababa to discuss...
...secure independence in any peace discussions, Ojukwu is relying on a strategy designed to embarrass Gowon. With sizable oilfields in the Port Harcourt area and in the mid-western region, Nigeria ranks as the world's 13th oil nation in terms of annual output (anticipated 1969 production: 255 million barrels). By attacking the oilfields, Biafra hopes to press the companies (Gulf, Phillips, Shell, British Petroleum and Italian Agip Nucleare) to talk Gowon into negotiations. Though Nigerian officials admit that oil production has dropped 60,000 barrels a day because of the war, the oilmen insist that they have...