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<asobh@students.uiuc.edu> I spent last fall writing on the relationship between the colonial administration, the Church Missionary Society and the indigenous inhabitants of Northern Nigeria (the interwar period). There is a voluminous amount of material out there, particularly in Nigeria itself (for example, the National Library Publications has _A Bibliography of Biographies and Memoirs on Nigeria_, #9, Lagos, 1968). At UIUC we are lucky to have quite a good selection. Ayandele, Crampton, and Ajayi of course have published a lot on this 'educated elite'. Some of the individual missionaries have written various materials and memoirs like Dr. Walter Miller and his sister, Ethel, which contain photos and names of their 'successes'. Although it is true that there were people found in enormous hardship-'slaves', they were also the most singularly sucessful products of the missionary enterprise. It was as if the missionaries felt they had blank slates, with no identity or history-and the were able to 'mold' them with a few exceptions (such as Holy Johnson). I think it would be quite interesting to investigate these 'cases'. The results were of hybridity. I believe this created one aspect of the uneven state of development and of affairs between North and the rest of Nigeria which contributed to the Civil War.
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