Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley interviews George and Nancy Axinn on their seven years experience at University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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.
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- In Collections
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G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 2003-07-18
- Interviewees
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Axinn, George Harold, 1926-
Axinn, Nancy W.
- Interviewers
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Wiley, David, 1935-
- Recordist
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Vincent Voice Library
- Contributors
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Michigan State University. African Studies Center
- Subjects
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Axinn, George Harold, 1926-
Axinn, Nancy W.
Michigan State University
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Michigan State University--University of Nigeria Program
Michigan State University. International Programs
Education, Higher
Educational exchanges
Universities and colleges
Universities and colleges--Faculty
Michigan
Nigeria
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 02:45:51
- Venue Note
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Interviewed on July 18, 2003.
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 14583
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b5852487
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