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<title>Obafemi Awolowo</title>
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<h1 class="text1">A Tribute to the Great Chief Obafemi Awolowo</h1>
<h2 class="text2">(March 6, 1909 – May 9, 1987)</h2>
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<h1>Early Life</h1>
Obafemi Awolowo was born in Ikenné, Western State,
Nigeria, on March 6, 1909. He received his early education in the mission schools of Ikenné,
Abeokuta, and Ibadan. Often he worked at odd jobs to raise money for tuition fees, and his
entrepreneurial spirit continued to express itself in the various careers which he subsequently
sampled: journalist, teacher, clerk, moneylender, taxidriver, produce broker. His organizational and
political inclinations became evident as he moved to high-level positions in the Nigerian Motor Transport Union,
the Nigerian Produce Traders' Association, the Trades Union Congress of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Youth Movement,
of which he became Western Provincial secretary.
<h1>Education</h1>
Despite his interest in business ventures, Awolowo wanted to continue his formal education.
In 1944 he completed a University of London correspondence course for the bachelor of commerce degree. His greatest ambition,
however, was to study law, which he undertook in London from 1944 to 1946, when he was called to the bar. Returning to
Nigeria in 1947, he developed a thriving practice as a barrister in Ibadan.
During his residence in London, Awolowo moved to a position of prominence in the struggle for Nigerian independence.
In 1945 he wrote his first book, Path to Nigerian Freedom, in which he was highly critical of British policies of
indirect administration and called for rapid moves toward self-government and Africanization of administrative
posts in Nigeria. He also expressed his belief that federalism was the form of government best suited to the
diverse populations of Nigeria, a position to which he consistently adhered. Also in 1945 in London, he helped
found the Egbe Omo Oduduwa (Society of the Descendants of Oduduwa, the mythical ancestor of the Yoruba-speaking
peoples), an organization devoted to the study and preservation of Yoruba culture.
<h1>Politics</h1>
In 1950 Awolowo founded and organized the Action Group political party in Western Nigeria to participate in the
Western Regional elections of 1951. The Action Group's platform called for immediate termination of British rule
in Nigeria and for development of various public welfare programs, including universal primary education, increase
of health services in rural areas, diversification of the Western Regional economy, and democratization of local
governments. The Action Group won a majority, and in 1952 Awolowo as president of the Action Group became leader
of the party in power in Western Nigeria. In 1954 he became the first premier of the Western Region, on which
occasion he was awarded an honorary chieftaincy. During his tenure as leader and premier, he held the regional
ministerial portfolios of local government, finance, and economic planning. He was also chairman of the Regional
Economic Planning Commission.
In 1963 Awolowo was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government of Nigeria and was sentenced to ten years
of imprisonment. In 1966, however, an attempted coup d'etat led to the suspension of the Nigerian federal constitution
and the empowerment of a military government which promised a new constitution. That year, while in prison, Awolowo
wrote Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution, in which he argued for the retention of a federal form of government
composed of 18 states. Later, in 1966, he was released from prison and the following year was invited to join the
Federal Military Government as federal commissioner of finance and as vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council.
In 1968 Awolowo published his fourth book, The People's Republic, calling for federalism, democracy, and socialism
as the necessary elements in a new constitution which would lead to the development of a stable and prosperous Nigeria.
Although he praised the Federal Military Government for creating a 12-state federal system in 1967, he predicted further
political difficulties because these states had not been based on ethnic and linguistic affinities.
Awolowo continued to serve the government as commisioner of finance and vice chairman of the Federal Executive Council
throughout the years of Nigeria's civil war with Biafra (1967-1970). In his 1970 book, The Strategy and Tactics of the
People"s Republic of Nigeria, he implied a position which he would state more firmly in subsequent years: that the
government's post-war spending should be devoted to development rather than to the military. He resigned in 1971
to protest the government's continuation of military rule, and in 1975, following the overthrow of the Gowon government,
issued a press release questioning the country's military spending. In 1979 and 1983 he ran for president as the candidate
for the Unity Party of Nigeria, losing to Shehu Shagari. Awolowo returned to private life upon the overthrow of the Shagari
government in December 1983. He died in Ikenné on May 9, 1987.
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"Like cause always produce like effect. In kind, we always reap what we sow;
but quantitatively, we always reap much more than we sow."
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"Throughout my adult life, I have learnt about the development of the soul personality
, I know the law and the prophets, that is to say, that love is the
cornerstone of the universe both visible and invisible."
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"Any system of education which does not help a man to have a healthy
and sound body and alert brain, and balanced and disciplined
urges, is both misconceived and dangerous."
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<img alt="Obafemi Awolowo"
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<figcaption>A GREAT MAN</figcaption>
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<h3 class="foot">The Tribute of the Great Obafemi Awolowo</h3>
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