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...tribesmen who since slave days have hated the Moslems. Zik himself nurtures a private plan to carve some non-Yoruba areas out of his chief rival's Western territories, while his opponents want to set up a new state among the non-Ibos in Zik's own Niger River delta...
Moroccan nationalists base their claim on the fact that 900 years ago the famed Almoravide Dynasty, from which they reckon descent, ruled all of northwest Africa from the Strait of Gibraltar (its Moorish legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north...
...Cummins to keep all eyes on the screen. An improbable story about a quadrangular love affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the shies affair set in St. James' palace, it has some of the sophistication and wit typical of good English comedy. George Colt and Niger Patrick held up the male end of the cast...
...Many a patient have I had come to me crying out: 'Oh, doctor! My head, my head! I can't stand it any longer; let me die!' . . . Sleeping sickness now prevails from the east coast of Africa right to the west, and from the Niger ... to the Zambesi . . . Yet, where death already stalks about as a conqueror, the European states provide in most niggardly fashion the means of stopping it." To treat the disease. Dr. Schweitzer had only atoxyl, which he called "a frightfully dangerous drug...
...colonial oppression (in modern Nigeria, there is none) but in the casual lumping together of conservative Northern Moslems with precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan...