2021
DOI: 10.14321/jwestafrihist.7.1.0001
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A Gilded Cage? Nnamdi Azikiwes Pan-Africanism as Governor-General of Nigeria, 1960–63

Abstract: Historians have wrongly ignored the period when Nnamdi Azikiwe served as governor-general of Nigeria, just after its independence (1960-63). Archival materials in Britain, the United States, and Azikiwe’s own papers in Nigeria reveal that he played a dynamic role in Nigeria’s new government, struggling against the constitutional limits of his chosen position, especially concerning Nigeria’s role in convening pan-African conferences that would lead to the creation of the Organization of African Unity in 1963. D… Show more

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