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Nigerian civil-service Africanization remains slow

Educated Nigerians pushed for more senior appointments, but colonial administration kept higher posts largely European.

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1926

Nigerian civil-service Africanization remains slow

Educated Nigerians pushed for more senior appointments, but colonial administration kept higher posts largely European.

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Educated Nigerians pushed for more senior appointments, but colonial administration kept higher posts largely European. This grievance fed later nationalist demands for Africanization.

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