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Word: ojukwu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which of the four girls he was living with he should marry.) Zik, whose following includes several million Nigerians, says he wants immediate independence, but he may have his tongue in his cheek. One of his supporters, Ojukwu, a wealthy transportation magnate, says: "If the British were to leave tomorrow, I would be the first one down on the docks asking them to leave their shoes and their clothes behind. We don't know how to make anything and we haven't got the facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dominion so Peculiar | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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