Nnamdi Azikiwe

Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on 16 November 1904 at Zungeru, in the north of the country, into an Igbo family. He left to study in the United States, where he spent nine years doing odd jobs, as a coal miner, boxer and dishwasher, before graduating from Lincoln and from Pennsylvania. Returning in 1934, he edited a daily newspaper in Accra, where he was prosecuted for sedition, then in 1937 founded in Lagos a chain of newspapers that carried the nationalist cause. Premier of the Eastern Region, governor-general in 1960, president from 1963 to 1966, overthrown by the military, a negotiator during the civil war, he died in Enugu on 11 May 1996.

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• EssayZik: A Selection from the Speeches of Nnamdi AzikiweNnamdi Azikiwe · 1961Literature