‘His telegrams appear to be hysterical, but he is very astute’: Azikiwe’s spectacular self and the 1945 General Strike in Nigeria

Coates, Oliver

doi:10.1080/13696815.2017.1286969

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“…In many ways, Zik's biography mirrors not only Nigeria's history but also the twentieth-century struggle for global black emancipation. He bestrode twentieth-century Nigeria like a colossus, as is apparent from the large body of work on his life and times (e.g., Echeruo 1974; Dudley 1978; Nwankwo 1996; Tonkin 1990; Flint 1999; Newell 2016; Nwakanma 2017; Coates 2018). A New York Times obituary observed that Zik “towered over the affairs of Africa's most populous nation, attaining the rare status of a truly national hero who came to be admired across the regional and ethnic lines dividing his country.” 9 And as John E. Flint correctly argues, “In many respects Azikiwe represents an archetype of the African nationalist leader and was an important pioneer of African nationalist movements” (1999: 143–44).…”

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Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

Adebanwi

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article uses the death and burial of one of the most important political leaders in twentieth-century Africa, and Nigeria's first and only ceremonial president, Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikiwe, to reflect on how and why the deaths and burials of significant persons in Africa represent occasions for the (re)production and management of cultural crises. It argues that the extant literature on the death of consequential persons in Africa either understates or overlooks the generalizability of the “essential contestability” of the material and immaterial relations of the past, present, and future provoked by such deaths. This is particularly visible when these relations are disturbed or challenged by the absence of the person and the process of their burial or reburial.

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Section: “Zik Of Africa”: An Assassination Attempt?mentioning

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Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

Adebanwi

2021

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“…Du Bois to Countee Cullen. In doing so, it drew on a rhetorical strategy apparent in Azikiwe’s prolific reflections on the cultural importance of the United States (Azikiwe, 1968; Coates, 2018a: 277; Nwakanma, 2017: 1). Other articles made claims recognizable from the American reporters’ own propaganda and linked the correspondents’ visit to an emerging pan-Atlantic ideal of democracy.…”

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African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

Coates

2021

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The National Negro Publishers Association (NNPA) Commission to West Africa in 1944–1945 represents a major episode in the history of World War II Africa, as well as in American–West Africa relations. Three African American reporters toured the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Liberia, and the Congo between November 1944 and February 1945, before returning to Washington, DC to report to President Roosevelt. They documented their tour in the pages of the Baltimore Afro-American, the Chicago Defender, and the Norfolk Journal and Guide. Their Americans’ visit had a significant impact in wartime West Africa and was widely documented in the African press. This article examines the NNPA tour geographically, before analyzing American reporters’ interactions with West Africans, and assessing African responses to the tour. Drawing on both African American and West African newspapers, it situates the NNPA tour within the history of World War II West Africa, and in terms of African print culture. It argues that the NNPA tour became the focus of West African hopes for future political, economic, and intellectual relations with African Americans, while revealing how the NNPA reporters engaged African audiences during their tour.

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A Gilded Cage? Nnamdi Azikiwes Pan-Africanism as Governor-General of Nigeria, 1960–63

Reeves¹

2021

Journal of West African History

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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. Despite being on the margins of official policymaking, Azikiwe used his reputation as Nigeria’s preeminent pan-Africanist since the 1930s to shape the role Nigeria would play in Africa’s new age of independence. La période durant laquelle Nnamdi Azikiwe était gouverneur général du Nigéria juste après son indépendance (1960-63) a été ignorée, à tort, par les historiens. En effet, des documents d’archives en Grande-Bretagne, aux États-Unis et les propres documents d’Azikiwe au Nigéria révèlent qu’il a joué un rôle dynamique dans le nouveau gouvernement du Nigéria. Effectivement, Azikiwe a lutté contre les limites constitutionnelles de sa position de gouverneur, en particulier en ce qui concernait le rôle du Nigéria dans la convocation de conférences panafricaines qui conduiraient à la création de l’Organisation de l’unité africaine en 1963. Bien qu‘étant en marge de l‘élaboration des politiques officielles, Azikiwe a utilisé sa réputation de panafricaniste par excellence du Nigéria depuis les années 1930 pour façonner le rôle que le Nigéria jouerait dans le nouvel âge de l’indépendance de l’Afrique.

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‘His telegrams appear to be hysterical, but he is very astute’: Azikiwe’s spectacular self and the 1945 General Strike in Nigeria

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Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

African American Journalists in World War II West Africa: The NNPA Commission Tour of 1944–1945

A Gilded Cage? Nnamdi Azikiwes Pan-Africanism as Governor-General of Nigeria, 1960–63

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