Word: nnamdi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will be child...
...newspaper interview with Premier Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria to a thoughtful critique of communism by President Leopold Senghon of Senegal. Geographically, they deal with Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Ideologically, they include positions from the communism of Mao Tse-tung to the political liberalism of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Governor-General of Nigeria...
After a legal career at home, Wachuku made his way up the political ladder under Eastern Nigeria's remarkable, U.S.-educated Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, now Governor General; this is no great political asset these days, since Nigeria is largely in the hands not of the Easterners, but of their rivals, the Moslem Northerners, notably Prime Minister Balewa. But whatever his political future at home, Wachuku in the U.N. revels in the flamboyance that comes naturally to the political firebrands of Iboland...
Nigeria's Eastern Region has moved even faster toward U.S. ideas. Prime mover is the area's top politician, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, a Lincoln University product who is Nigeria's Governor General. Zik brought in the Michigan State education team (financed by the International Cooperation Administration) that set up the East's $30 million University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Starting with liberal arts, the school also aims to teach agriculture, engineering, science and education to 6,000 students in ten years...
Slugging Matches. Until 1937, Nigeria's few newspapers played a minor role in the national life, hardly going beyond their mid-igth century origins as shipping news and commercial circulars. But that year a fiery young Nigerian named Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe returned from the U.S., where he had studied political science and journalism at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and founded a new daily in Lagos, the West African Pilot...