National Council of Nigeria and the CameroonsAfrican political organization

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  • role of Azikiwe ( in Azikiwe, Nnamdi )

    ...before returning to Nigeria in 1937. There he founded and edited newspapers and also became directly involved in politics, first with the Nigerian Youth Movement and later (1944) as a founder of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), which became increasingly identified with the Igbo people of southern Nigeria after 1951. In 1948, with the backing of the NCNC, Azikiwe was...

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