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ERIC ED138139: Future Nigerian-U.S. Linkages in Higher Education.

Nigeria is the most populous African country and the one most critical for U.S. relations with black peoples everywhere. It has a revitalized National Universities Commission (NUC), an ambitious new educational policy, and six old and seven new universities. The challenge is to find effective means of Nigerian access to the appropriate and interested U.S. universities out of the baffling total and to foster linkages in pursuit of mutually held objectives. That was the task undertaken by the five-man team that visited Nigeria in 1977, at the request of the NUC, organized by the American Council…