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- <text id=90TT2542>
- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: African King
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 100
- African King
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- <p> Today, a professor. Tomorrow, His Royal Highness. Joseph
- Edozien, 65, a faculty member of the University of North
- Carolina, is to be crowned King of Asaba, a region of a million
- people in his native Nigeria. He was chosen to succeed his late
- uncle, he said last week, because "I've been exposed to other
- cultures. The tribal councils wanted somebody with fresh ideas.
- I can do a lot to change the lives of many people." In his few
- weeks left in the U.S., his home for 23 years, Edozien will be
- packing prized possessions: tapes by Michael Jackson, Lionel
- Richie and Herbie Hancock.
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- </body>
- </article>
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