Word: niger
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...Senegal, Ivory Coast, Congo Republic, Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Central African Republic, Upper Volta, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroun, Malagasy Republic (the former Madagascar...
...between townsman and bush dweller. It is, instead, racial and religious rivalries pointed up by the mighty Y that is stamped across Nigeria's face (see map) by two great rivers-the winding Benue that pours from the cloud-ringed Camerounian mountains in the east, and the majestic Niger that comes in from the west to join the Benue in a single mighty stream running south to the Gulf of Guinea...
...Single Pride. His moment of enlightenment came in 1955, when Abubakar journeyed to the U.S. to find out whether what the U.S. had done to develop water transport on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers could be applied to the sand-clogged Niger. One night, as he sat in a Manhattan hotel room, he got to thinking about what he had seen in the U.S. His thoughts as he recalls them: 'In less than 200 years, this great country was welded together by people of so many different backgrounds. They built a mighty nation and had forgotten where they came...
...base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps contain reserves of perhaps one billion barrels...
...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...