Word: nigerian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Johannesburg, South Africa, Correspondent Alexander Campbell reports that of the 15,000 miles he has flown this year, the strangest trip was from the Gold Coast capital Accra to the Nigerian capital Lagos: "I flew by West African Airways, whose emblem is a flying elephant. The passengers were mostly natives. The men wore fezzes and flowing robes, or sun helmets and white shirts hanging outside their pants. The women wore print dresses, with the luggage balanced on their heads and babies slung on their backs. The plane was also packed with freight, including crates of squawking chickens. This packed...
Another unusual map, in the reception room, has no continental outlines, but shows only the world's major routes of communication. Hand-tooled in Nigerian goatskin, the map covers nearly 350 square feet. The legend underneath it says, in part: "The map above you is not a fantasy. It is a factual design of one world man has built upon the earth. It is the particular world of international communication. No land masses appear here, nor oceans. For it is the very essence of communication to transcend these - to render continents into carriers, seas into bridges . . . Here exposed...
...mobilized alternative, as it is in Malaya or Iran; there is still time. It is in the jubilant, blossoming Gold Coast, and in its hero Nkrumah, that some of Africa's awakening millions see the early light of freedom dawning over the continent. "In Africa today," said Nigerian Commerce Minister A. C. Nwapa in a BBC broadcast, "the sun is rising not in the East but in the West . . ." The Colonial Office agrees: "The Gold Coast is talked about with surprise in Johannesburg slums, among tribes outside Nairobi longing for more land, and in Uganda where men nurse secret...
Flight by Night. Like most Midwestern towns, McPherson was unaware that it had a segregation problem: before the students arrived from Africa, it counted only 23 Negroes inside the city limits, and they managed pretty well to keep out of the way. So when Nigerian James...
What they said was an earful. Nigeria, they told Rozella, is surging toward its own nationalism. "We are struggling for independence," Isaac Grillo explained. "We won't stop. That is why we want education-to help 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...