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Abioseh Nicol (Davidson Nicol) (14 September 1924 - 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leonean academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ...
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September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Early life
Nicol was born as Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol in 1924 in colonial Sierra Leone. His family belonged to the Krio minority who had historically been more advantaged with respect to educational opportunities. He attended primary school in Nigeria and, in 1946, graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He earned his Ph.D. in 1958 and lectured at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Krio is a language spoken in Sierra Leone. ...
The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ...
The University of Ibadan is Nigerias oldest university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. ...
Academia Beginning in 1960, Nicol was the first native principal of the prestigious Fourah Bay College in Freetown (left in 1966) as well as a member of the Public Service Commission (left in 1968). Nicol continued his administrative career at the university level in Sierra Leone as first the chairman (1964-1969) then as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sierra Leone (1966-1969). Fourah Bay College (founded in 1827 as the first western-style university in West Africa) is a university in Fourah Bay, Freetown, Sierra Leone under the banner of the University of Sierra Leone (from 1966 to 2005) and formerly affiliated with Durham University (from 1876 - 1967). ...
Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast. ...
The University of Sierra Leone is the name of the former unitary public university system in Sierra Leone, which, as of May 2005, was reconstitued into the individual colleges of Fourah Bay College and Njala University college. ...
Diplomacy Nicol left academia in 1969 to become the Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, which he served as until 1971. In that year, Nicol became the High Commisoner to the United Kingdom, which ended in 1972. In 1972, Nicol became the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations under Austrian Kurt Waldheim, which he served as until 1982. While serving as Under-Secretary General, Nicol also served as head of UNITAR. An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ...
The foundation of the U.N. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. ...
An Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) is a senior official within the United Nations System, normally appointed by the UN General Assembly on the recommendation of the UN Secretary-General for a repeatable term of four years. ...
Kurt Josef Waldheim (born December 21, 1918) is an Austrian diplomat and conservative politician. ...
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was established in 1965 as an autonomous body within the United Nations with the purpose of enhancing the effectiveness of the Organization through appropriate training and research. ...
Return to Academia and Retirement From 1987 until retiring in 1991, Nicol served as a visiting professor of International Studies at the University of California (1987-1988) and University of South Carolina (1990-1991). Nicol retired in 1991 at the age of 67 to London. He died 3 years later at the age of 70 in the United Kingdom. International relations (IR) is an academic and public policy field, a branch of political science, dealing with the foreign policy of states within the international system, including the roles of international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ...
Berkeley Davis Irvine Los Angeles Merced San Diego Santa Barbara Santa Cruz UC Office of the President in Oakland The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ...
The University of South Carolina, Columbia (USC or Carolina) is a public, co-educational, research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. ...
Nicol's writings Beginning in 1965 with "Two African Tales", Nicol was a published author of short stories, poetry, academic literature and even a biography of Africanus Horton, an early Sierra Leonean author and one of the founders of African Nationalism. His last piece of published work was "Creative Women" in 1982. Africanus Horton (1835-1883), also known as James Beale, was a writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone. ...
African nationalism is the nationalist political movement for one united Africa, or the lesser goal of the recognition of African tribes by establishing their own state and preservation of their native cultures. ...
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