Who are these dangerous, violent and subversive elements that thrive on targeting and terrorising the weakest and most vulnerable Africans in their country and that make the old Ku Klux Klan of America, the old National Front of the UK, the old Hitler Youth, Brown Shirts of Nazi Germany, and the old Afrikaner Resistance Movement of South Africa’s Eugène Terre Blanche look like child’s play, really working for?… Do they serve the interests of South Africa or those of a foreign power whose objective is not just to destroy and disintegrate South Africa but to do the same to Africa generally.
Permit me to continue with the point that I touched on in the preceding part of this contribution about Nigeria’s firsts and our monumental achievements, when compared to others on our continent.
Still on education. We touched on Oxford University in the third part of this essay, so permit me to focus on Cambridge here.
As stated earlier, the first African to attend Cambridge University was George Gurney Nicole, a Nigerian/Sierra Leonean who attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, studied Law and graduated with a B.A. in 1879.
The second African to attend Cambridge University was Francis Henry Fearon, a Nigerian/Sierra Leonean, who studied Law and graduated from St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1891.
