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Southern Nigeria had their own regiment; while Northern Nigeria had the constabulary of the Royal Niger Company, and they had, at the time, just raised two battalions and three batteries. Fortunately, the recent dispute between the people and ourselves as to their respective boundaries had been temporarily arranged, and a portion of these troops could be utilized.
Wherever we find the payment of a bride-price, in whatever form, there is sure indication of the decay of mother-right: woman has become property. Among the Bassa Komo of Nigeria marriage is usually effected by an exchange of sisters or other female relatives. The men may marry as many wives as they have women to give to other men.
Consequently the effort is made to-day in British Nigeria, in the French Congo and Sudan, in Uganda and Rhodesia to leave so far as possible the outward structure of native life intact; the king or chief reigns, the popular assemblies meet and act, the native courts adjudicate, and native social and family life and religion prevail.
They are answerable only to the Power that issued the charter; and that Power is the just, the humane, the merciful Leopold. The history of the early days of chartered companies in Africa, notoriously those of the Congo, Northern Nigeria, Rhodesia, and German Central Africa does not make pleasant reading.
"Why, Jack!" I exclaimed, "I had no idea you were in England. I thought you were bagging rhinoceroses and things in Nigeria or somewhere." "So I have been. Got back yesterday. Sorry I am back, to tell you the truth," and he glanced significantly towards the window.
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching radio democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria, and passing the African Trade and Development Act. We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy and increase trade.
They were from men in Nigeria Government officials, missionaries, and merchants from men and women in many lands, from the mothers and sisters of the "boys" to whom she had been kind, from Church officials, from children all overflowing with affection and admiration and love. She had often called herself a "rich woman." One learned from these letters the reason why.
The theory of an external soul deposited in an animal appears to be very prevalent in West Africa, particularly in Nigeria, the Cameroons, and the Gaboon.
Only at the last, as he held her hand, he asked her: "I may write to you from Nigeria?" Rather shyly, she assented; adding, with a smile: "But I am a bad letter-writer!" "You are an angel!" he said, hoarsely, lifted her hand, kissed it, and rushed away.
He smoked well, ate well, slept well, and did not worry about the slow passage of time. Cruchot was a gendarme. He had seen twenty years of service in the colonies, from Nigeria and Senegal to the South Seas, and those twenty years had not perceptibly brightened his dull mind. He was as slow-witted and stupid as in his peasant days in the south of France.
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