ABSTRACT
“Race,” of course, has little to do with any strictly scientific, biological sense of group differences. It is a matter of those “folk,” “emic” conceptions which connect to racism. One may wonder if an emphasis on race alone offers a complete analysis of the situation at hand. From inside the group, it was important to recognize that set of shared understandings, which became the basis of a collective identity. This seems to be a matter of ethnicity, of the “social organization of culture difference.” Black Americans, should be that race and ethnicity should not necessarily be understood as competing analytical alternatives, but could stand in a slightly more complicated relationship. The Igbo had taken quickly to education in Christian mission schools, while Northern Nigerians had stayed away from those, to the limited extent that they were at all present in their areas.
