IUPUI professor appointed tribal chief in Nigeria

Since October 2000, political scientist Scott Pegg and his wife, Tijen, have raised $11,500 for the Bebor Model Nursery and Primary School located in the rural Nigerian village of Bodo.

The first of three gifts the Peggs have made to Bebor included hundreds of dollars the couple requested as donations to the school instead of wedding presents and literally put a roof over the heads of the school’s older students.

Leaders of the African village last month appointed Pegg to their council of chiefs in appreciation of his fund-raising efforts to build classrooms for the private village school of about 400 students. Bobo residents, members of the Ogoni tribe, turn to the council to settle property disputes and other matters before going to police or government agencies.

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