How Nnamdi Azikiwe Became the First President of Nigeria
Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first President and a vigorous champion of African independence from European colonial rule, died Saturday in a hospital in his native eastern Nigeria after a long illness. He was 91. Late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Igbo from southeast Nigeria, presided over a democratic Government that was in power for a mere three years before the regional tensions that have marked the country’s politics ever since led to the first of many military coups. But as a lawyer, political scientist, journalist, political activist, President and for many years Nigeria’s elder statesman, Dr. Azikiwe towered over the affairs of Africa’s most populous nation, attaining the rare status of a truly national hero who came to be admired across the regional and ethnic lines dividing his country. After years of agitation for nationhood, Dr. Azikiwe became Governor General of the ...


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