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Africa called : science and development in Nigeria / Alan Hayward.
Van Pelt Library TP369.52.H39 H39 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayward, Alan, 1916-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hayward, Alan, 1916-.
- Hayward, Alan.
- Food engineers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Food engineers.
- Food engineers--Nigeria--Biography.
- British--Nigeria--Biography.
- British.
- Nigeria.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 198 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Radcliffe Press ; New York : In the United States and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Contents:
- Map of West Africa xxiv
- 1 Incubation 1
- 2 To Nigeria 15
- UK to Nigeria 1948: initiation 15
- Consumer habits not seen in Europe 21
- Lagos to Kano, 1948 24
- Our mandate 28
- UK to Nigeria 1952: Lagos or bust 30
- 3 Early Days 35
- The Kano scene 35
- Animals 37
- Laughter is good for the immune system 42
- Lost in the bush with two unique encounters 44
- Shooting 50
- 4 Peanut Problems 57
- The pyramids of Kano 57
- Down the Niger 62
- 5 Near Misses 71
- A very near miss 73
- Skating in Nigeria 78
- A dangerous camel 80
- A fallen Dove 83
- 6 A Long Drive: Nigeria to the UK 85
- Getting ready 87
- French follies 89
- To Tamenrasset 93
- Tamenrasset to Algiers 102
- 7 Two Flashman-like Episodes 117
- A fishy affair 117
- To the Tenere with compliments 121
- 8 Aviantics 137
- No brakes 138
- Not my final flight? 139
- Kano or be damned 140
- Bogged down and arrested in Agadez 142
- The desert bus 143
- 9 Across the Pond in 1980 147
- Our skipper 147
- Rendezvous 149
- Charm 111 151
- Our trip 152
- A UFO? 161
- Getting nearer 162
- 10 The Ganges to Singapore and Mogadishu 167
- No picnic on the Ganges 167
- Expelled from topsy-turvy land 170
- 11 A Glimpse of Senegal 177
- An unholy mission in Senegal 180
- A divided Nigeria 183
- A disrupted society 186
- The myth of colonial exploitation in Nigeria 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-190) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781845114947
- 1845114949
- OCLC:
- 170039467
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