| Abstract: | These notes on a recent visit by member of the Nigerian EducationDepartment vividly illustrate life in the small delta portsby-passed by railway development elsewhere. The descendantsof King Jaja, it will be remembered, have just been voted $11,420by Parliament in settlement of a 50-year old claim against thekidnapping of the King by Consul (Sir) Harry Johnston in 1887.In this they were assisted by Sir William Geary, Mr. Sorensen,M.P., and Colonel Ponsonby, M.P. A report says that the moneyis to be used to provide a secondary school. |
