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When talk of independence began to spread, he entered politics, but with the purpose of fighting against self-rule for Nigeria, not for it. He insisted that the north, lacking educated leaders, was not ready, and even threatened a jihad (holy war) against the more advanced Ibo and Yoruba tribesmen of the south if the British walked out and left Nigerians to rule themselves. But a visit to the U.S. in 1955 as Nigeria's Minister of Works convinced him that widely differing nationalities could live together in peace. "Until then, I assure you that I did not believe...
...instead; his party's choice for independent Nigeria's top political job would be turbaned, scholarly Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, who has already held the post of federal Prime Minister under the British crown for two years. In his speeches the Sardauna cast gibes at Zik ("an unbelieving Ibo"), but his major aim was to defeat his bitterest enemy, Awolowo, who called the Northern ruler a backward feudalist...
Ganging Up. Nigeria is divided into three parts. The Ibo of the East and the Yoruba of the West hate one another and scorn the less advanced Northerners. It is the North, with its huge area and heavy Moslem population, led by the turbaned Sardauna of Sokoto, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, that is supposed to hold the key to power...
...corruption are the political order of the day. His fellow Prime Minister to the more populous but primitive north, the Sardauna of Sokoto, is a haughty Moslem nobleman out of another century. Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration. So rent by divisions (250 tribes speaking 400 languages), Nigeria has a compromise federal Prime Minister, Abubakar Balewa, a northerner. "To many of us," says Awolowo, "Britain is our second home. We have...
...Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...