Birthday: Nnamdi Azikiwe Turns 116 Today
Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe, PC (sixteen November 1904 – 11 May 1996), commonly called "Zik", changed into a Nigerian statesman and political chief who served as the first President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966. Considered a using force in the back of the kingdom's independence, he got here to be called the "father of Nigerian Nationalism".
Born to Igbo mother and father from Anambra State Eastern Nigeria in Zungeru in gift-day Niger State, as a young boy he discovered to speak Hausa (the principle indigenous language of the Northern Region). Azikiwe changed into later sent to stay with his aunt and grandmother in Onitsha (his parental place of birth), wherein he discovered the Igbo language. A live in Lagos exposed him to the Yoruba language; by the time he turned into in university, he have been uncovered to extraordinary Nigerian cultures and spoke 3 languages (an asset as president).
Azikiwe travelled to the United States where he changed into referred to as Ben Azikiwe and attended Storer College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Howard University. He contacted colonial authorities with a request to symbolize Nigeria at the Los Angeles Olympics. He back to Africa in 1934, wherein he started work as a journalist inside the Gold Coast. In British West Africa, he recommended Nigerian and African nationalism as a journalist and a political leader.
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