Dr. Nwafor Orizu was one of the most influential political figures of Nigeria’s First Republic and a key architect of the country’s early parliamentary democracy. A nationalist, educator, and statesman,…
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Chief Louis Nwachukwu Mbanefo remains one of the most distinguished legal minds in Nigerian history. Known as “the first Nigerian to be appointed a High Court Judge” and…
Nnamdi Azikiwe. Public Domain Image
On a bright morning in 1949, the town of Aba in southeastern Nigeria stirred with uncommon energy. From Nsukka to Onitsha, from Owerri to Enugu, Igbo…
Zik and I: The Biafra Story Part II by Ojukwu. Photo: Newswatch, October 5, 1985, p. 53."
In a 1985 interview with Newswatch, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu shares his perspective on the…
W. E. B. Du Bois with Nnamdi Azikiwe, ca. 1930 by Cecil Layne, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In January 1930, during the height of the Women’s War in Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe,…