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Thursday, June 29, 2023

Nigeria: The Fiction Of Three Founding Fathers

 By Obi Nwkanma

 Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe was the leader of the African nationalist resis­tance to colonialism from 1937 to 1957. He spearheaded it. He theorized it. He catalyzed it.

*Dr. Azikiwe 

In spite of the puny attempts by char­acters whom Azikiwe himself would have dubbed “Lilliputians” to revise the history of African nationalism in the 20th century, and diminish Azikiwe’s work, the great Zik continues to glow be­cause he is preserved in the documents of the 20th century.