Word: nnamdi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white velvet gown which, when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing...
That is a tall order, but Gardiner is a moderate among native African leaders. In nearby Nigeria lives a more extreme and more important Negro spokesman, the fabulous Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as "Zik." In the 1920s, Zik stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which...