Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says deep-voiced Prince Orizu: "The type of education that is safe for our peace is the education that has no bitterness." His recently published Without Bitterness (Creative Age, $3) throws some bitter sidelights on the intellectual darkness of his native continent. The illiterate Nigerian man-in-the-jungle outnumbers his educated brother by more than ten to one. Orizu believes that only universal free education can help to stem the growing spirit of revenge in his long-exploited continent ("Can it be that my Africa is without brothers...
Pragmatism and Polygamy. Though Europe's universities outrank the U.S.'s in Nigerian esteem, Orizu heard American universities praised by a fellow countryman, came to the U.S. in 1939, at Ohio State took his degree in government with honors, proceeded to an M.A. at Columbia. Through his American Council on African Education he has thus far secured 150 U.S. college scholarships for his countrymen. In a few months he expects to go home (where he may or may not resume the throne) and begin working at first hand to improve Nigeria's 36,626 schools...
...strong believer in cultural reciprocity, the Prince wants Nigeria's 23 accredited colleges to offer research-scholarships to U.S. students. Besides such hard-to-find courses as Arabic language and Nigerian history, they would provide Western visitors with insights into Nigeria's "stable family system and immaterial culture...
Died. Alhaji Muhammadu Dikko, 75, wealthy Emir of Nigerian Katsina (pop. 1,000,000). Most forward-looking of all Emirs, plane-traveling Dikko had four wives, 500 descendants...
...Nigeria's late Ezeugbonyamba I, the Obi of Nnewi, kept on looking for scholarships to U.S. colleges-not for himself, but for high-school graduates back home. An Ohio State University alumnus just awarded his M. A. by Columbia, Orizu told a Manhattan reporter that he had broken Nigerian traditions by getting his education in the U.S. (rather than in England), hoped other Nigerians would follow...