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Editorial on #Nigeria
(62 years ago)
The Time Magazine 10th November 1958.
INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT DIFFICULTIES IS A DREAM OF UTOPIA.
For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerians—some with necklaces of animal teeth, others with...
(62 years ago)
The Time Magazine 10th November 1958.
INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT DIFFICULTIES IS A DREAM OF UTOPIA.
For one month, delighted Londoners watched the 80 ceremonially dressed Nigerians—some with necklaces of animal teeth, others with...
feathered straw hats, at least one with a jeweled crown—parade into Lancaster House for their historic conference.
Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home.
Everything possible had been done to make them feel at home.
For the Colonial Office's big reception at the Tate Gallery, all nude statues were carefully screened so as not to offend Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount Chief—His Highness James Okosi II of Onitsha —fulfilled a lifelong ambition:
