Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2005-013-009
Phyllis Noble served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nigeria from 1965 to 1967 in a secondary education program. After graduating from Loyola University, she taught for one year in Chicago. During Peace Corps training at Michigan State University she learned the Ibo language, but was assigned to the mid-western region of the Niger Delta at a girls secondary school. Noble's time in Nigeria coincided with a civil disturbance and the Biafran War. The interview describes her school environment as well as her experience living on the edge of civil war in a town with a Shell-BP oil operation. Noble eventually had to evacuate with Shell-BP personnel to Lagos. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, August 1, 2004. 3 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).