Word: nnamdi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's 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...
From London had come an Order in Council from Queen Elizabeth granting immediate home rule for Eastern and Western Nigeria. The cabled order caught Nigeria's regional premiers by complete surprise. Western Premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo was holidaying in Britain. Eastern Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe better known as "Zik" to his enthusiastic followers, was something less than exuberant. ''Falls so far short of the yearnings," complained his newspaper, "that it does not deserve to be noised abroad. The drums ought to be silent. The cymbals should be hidden away...
...turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite of some 3,000,000 Ibo tribesmen in the East; and last but far from least, the Moslem commoner Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, an oracle of moderation in a sea of local extremism, who might well wind up as Nigeria...
Nigeria: In the midst of a hot election campaign (see below), ebullient Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Nigeria's Eastern Region, announced that he would ask Britain for self-government in May. Probable result: local self-government for two of Nigeria's three regions sometime this year, independence for the entire Federation (pop. 32 million...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...