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^{Page 165 note 1} Broadcasts on ‘Radio Nigeria’, 30 May 1967.

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^{Page 169 note 1} The major sources consulted for Ibo traditional culture were: Buchanan, K. M. and Pugh, J. C., Land and People in Nigeria (London, 1962),Google ScholarGreen, M. M., Ibo Village Affairs (London, 1947),Google ScholarForde, Daryll and Jones, G. I., The Ibo and Ibibio-Speaking Peoples of South Eastern Nigeria (London, 1950),Google ScholarOttenberg, Phoebe, ‘The Afikpo Ibo of Eastern Nigeria,’ in Gibbs, James L. Jr (ed.), Peoples of Africa (New York, 1965), pp. 1–40,Google Scholar and Ottenberg, Simon, ‘Ibo Receptivity to Change,’ in Bascom, William R. and Herskovits, Melville J. (eds.), Continuity and Change in African Cultures (Chicago and London, 1959), pp. 130–43.Google Scholar

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^{Page 170 note 2} Population Census of Nigeria (Government Statistician, Lagos), 1921, 1931, and 1952.Google Scholar

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^{Page 171 note 1} Population Census of the Western Region of Nigeria, 1952 (Government Statistician, Lagos, 1953–1954).Google Scholar

^{Page 171 note 2} Report on the Kano Disturbances, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th May 1953 (Kaduna, 1953), pp. 39–40.Google Scholar

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^{Page 172 note 1} Annual Abstract of Statistics (Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965), Table 2.4, p. 14.Google Scholar

^{Page 172 note 2} At the elementary level, the number of teachers in the East in 1963 was 8,099 as compared with the West's 3,740 and the North's 2,881. At the secondary level, the West's secondary modern school system gave it the lead, with 6,525 teachers as compared to the East's 2,070 and the North's 480.

^{Page 172 note 3} Nigeria Year Book, 1965 (Lagos, 1965), p. 259.Google Scholar

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^{Page 172 note 5} Ibid. pp. 139–140.

^{Page 172 note 6} The Nigerian Situation:facts and background (Zaria, 1966), p. 25.Google Scholar

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^{Page 174 note 1} West African Pilot (Lagos), 6 07 1949, as quoted by Coleman, op. cit. p. 347.Google Scholar

^{Page 174 note 2} Statistics on voting behaviour were derived from Sklar, Richard L. and Whitaker, C. S. Jr, ‘Nigeria,’ in Coleman, James S. and Rosberg, Carl G. (eds.), Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964), pp. 652–4.Google Scholar Also see Sklar, and Whitaker, , ‘The Federal Republic of Nigeria,’ in Carter, Gwendolen M. (ed.), National Unity and Regionalism in Eight African States (Ithaca, 1966), pp. 53–6.Google Scholar

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^{Page 174 note 4} Sklar, and Whitaker, , ‘Nigeria’, p. 612.Google Scholar Leaders included members of the executive committees of the political parties, federal officers, regional representatives, and ministers in federal and regional posts, as selected by the author. It should be noted that ethnic groups indigenous to the North did not include the Yorubas in the calculations. For more details, see Sklar, op. cit.

^{Page 175 note 1} Ibid. p. 614.

^{Page 176 note 1} Daily Express (Lagos), 30 07 1964,Google Scholar as quoted in Mackintosh, et al., op. cit. p. 564.

^{Page 176 note 2} A review of this election may be found in Harris, Richard L., ‘Nigeria's Federal Election: democracy in crisis,’ in Africa Report (Washington), 03 1965.Google Scholar

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^{Page 177 note 2} Daily Express, 22 December 1964.

^{Page 177 note 3} ‘Sir Abubakar Assures Overseas Investors of Stability’, News from Nigeria, 20 February 1965.

^{Page 177 note 4} Nigeria 1966 (Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos, 1967), p. 5.Google Scholar

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