ABSTRACT
Yesterday was the first anniversary of the Federation of Nigeria, and there was both good weather and a garden party to which none of us got invited. (The American mission did, though.) Today are the official festivities, parades of schoolchildren and the military etc., but as it did a year ago, it is raining cats and dogs. The second rains, marking the end of the rainy season, have finally come after an unusually dry and not unpleasant summer, and everything is rained out...
