Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley interviews George and Nancy Axinn on their seven years experience at University of Nigeria, Nsukka

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Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley interviews George and Nancy Axinn on their seven years experience at University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), established with MSU faculty and US AID funding from the late 1950s. The Axinns talk about the involvement of Nigeria's first President Nnamdi Azikiwe and University Vice Chancellor Kalu Ezera, experiences of the numerous MSU faculty and staff at Nsukka, adoption of a unique higher education model different from the British/colonial model and attuned, like the MSU land grant model, to local needs through applied and social sciences and humanities including agriculture, engineering and nutrition/home economics, similarities between the Continuing Education Centre (UNN) and Kellogg Center (MSU), exchanges between MSU and UNN, and disruption and violence of the Biafran War of 1967-70 and evacuation of MSU faculty, personnel, and families.

Date Issued:

2003-07-18T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Place:

Nigeria, Nigeria, Michigan, and Nigeria

Subject Topic:

Faculty, History, Universities and colleges, Educational exchanges, Educational exchanges, Education, Higher, and History

Subject Name:

Axinn, George Harold, 1926-, Axinn, Nancy W., Michigan State University, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Michigan State University--University of Nigeria Program, Michigan State University, and International Programs

Subject Genre:

Interviews, Interviews, and Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m56970030