Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chris Ohiri, class of 1964, arrived in Nigeria only to face military confinement as a threat to the present government. He died in police custody 100 miles away from his home...
After a brief period of hospitalization in the U.S. in 1966, Ohiri was released so that he could return to Nigeria to live out the rest of his life with his family. On the plane back he tried to write a collection of memoirs that he had been planning, but his once athletic hands could not even grip the pencil...
...deliberations concerning the banning of South Africa from the Olympic Games in Mexico City [March 8], the International Committee should also consider banning Kenya for discrimination against resident Asians, the U.K. for discrimination against those same Asians, the Arab States for discrimination against the Israelis, Nigeria for discrimination against the Ibos, France for discrimination against the British, the Greek Cypriots for discrimination against the Turkish Cypriots and vice-versa, a majority of the nations sitting in the U.N. for discrimination against China, and the U.S. for discrimination against Ian Smith...
Bulging with Bank Notes. The Ibo have adjusted to the war remarkably well. In the bush, villagers have taken into their families thousands of Ibo fleeing from other regions of Nigeria and from Biafran towns threatened with capture. Wholly new and hidden villages have sprung up near occupied towns. At roadblocks around the country, highschool girls in "Long Live Biafra" T-shirts help militiamen check passing cars. Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Dick Tiger, an Ibo, has toured the interior villages, advising militia officers on how to whip their inexperienced recruits into fighting trim...