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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...festival at the Mayflower Hotel without throwing up. It is a sorry and desperate cause that will drive a Baptist like Poling into the same bed with the kindly apostle of Confident Living. One might have guessed that the faith of neither would stand in the way of their common Republicanism...
Matter of Persuasion. Brotherhood is perhaps too strong a term yet in a land made up of 250 bickering tribal groups speaking as many languages, with little in common but mutual suspicion and jealousy. But it is an achievement in itself that a unified Nigeria is getting its independence and seems ready for it. Only a decade ago, a rising young politician from the north named Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was threatening a Moslem holy war against the southerners rather than join them in one independent nation. "There is no basis for Nigerian unity," he sniffed. "It is only a British...
With an estimated floor space of 75,000 square feet, the new building will consolidate many scattered classrooms and administrative and faculty offices now located in frame houses. In addition, it will contain a library, and common rooms...
They may, in fact, follow the most extraordinary patterns. Most of the countries in the stage of transition to industrialization have this much in common: an economy based about 75 per cent on agriculture, and hence, problems of altering traditional methods of farming and of land tenure; geophysical difficulties like swamps and jungles; labor shortages and unemployment in the wrong places; high illiteracy rates; rapidly expanding populations, the result of the overwhelming influx of technology that has reduced rates by more than half, lack of technological knowledge; lack of political experience; lack of capital...
...University, Essien-Udom is currently leading a non-honors tutorial at Dunster House on "The Genesis and Relevance of Pan-Africanism to Nationalist Movements." Here he plans to deal with what he calls, "unquestionably the major problem for Africa," that of overcoming the many different divisive forces and developing common, pan-african loyalties and values: "There are Yarubas in Dahomey and Yarubas in Gold Coast who, because of the artificial lines drawn by colonialism, can no longer understand each other. Sometimes divisions like this are actually encouraged by politicians who have gotten a little power and want to keep...