Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987
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Name (Hebrew)
אבולובו, אובפמי, 1909-1987
Name (Latin)
Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987
Other forms of name
Awo, 1909-1987
Avolovo, Obafemi, 1909-1987
Awolowo, Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi, 1909-1987
Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-
Avolovo, Obafemi, 1909-
Awo, 1909-
Awolowo, Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi, 1909-
Date of birth
1909-03-06
Date of death
1987-05-09
Associated country
Nigeria
Field of activity
Law
Nigeria--Politics and government
Occupation
Lawyers
Politicians
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Awolowo's conception of equal educational opportunity, 2011:p. vii (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, b. Mar. 6, 1909 in Ikenne, Ogun State; law degree, UK, 1944; called to Inner Temple Bar, London, 1946; first premier of Western Region, 1955)
- Obafemi Awolowo and the making of Remo, c2009:p. 229 (Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed June 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Awolowo, Obafemi; political figure; born 1909 in Ikene, Nigeria; advanced his education while also engaged as a newspaper reporter, produce broker, money lender, and clerk (the 1930s); active in such organizations as the Nigerian Produce Traders' Association, the Trades Union Congress of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Youth Movement (by the 1940s); a bachelor of Commerce degree; went to London to study law (in the mid-1940s); founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, Yoruba political and cultural organization, there (1945); it expanded into the mainly Yoruba Action Group party (1951); headed the Western Region government (1951-1959); became the opposition leader after the pre-independence federal election (1959); sentenced to ten years for treason during the troubled prelude to the 1966-1970 civil war (1963-1966); joined the federal side in the war as Commissioner for Finance; leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria; won the presidency (1983); died 1987, place unknown)
- His Path to Nigerian freedom, 1947.
- His Awo on the Nigerian Civil War, 1982:t.p. (Obafemi Awolowo) intro. (Awo)
- Uwanaka, C.U. Zik & Awo in political storm, 1982 or 1983:p. 5 (Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo; Obafemi Awolowo)
- Joseph, L. Awo!, 1987:p. 37 (d. May 9, 1987)