Nigeria also featured, and was represented by the University of Ibadan.

Nigeria tries but poverty intervenes, said Dr. Clement Adebamowo of the University of Ibadan.

He won a scholarship to the University of Ibadan where he read English, history and theology.

In 1948, he won a scholarship to study medicine at what became the University of Ibadan.

Kale would go on to become professor of preventative and social medicine at the University of Ibadan and a leading public health expert.

Essien-Udom, professor of political science at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and author of "Black Nationalism: A Search for an Identity."