Photo credit: portrait of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa by Eliot Elisofon, from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. The image is in the public domain and was sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
Photo credit: portrait of Obafemi Awolowo by Eliot Elisofon, from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. The image is in the public domain and was sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
Photo credit: portrait of Marcus Garvey as "Provisional President of Africa" by the Keystone View Company, held by the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division and digitally restored by Adam Cuerden. The image is in the public domain and was sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was born in December 1912 in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria. A teacher before he entered politics, he rose through the Northern People's Congress, became Chief Minister of the Federation in 1957 and led Nigeria into independence on 1 October 1960 as its first Prime Minister. He encouraged the formation of the Organisation of African Unity and built ties between English and French speaking Africa. He was killed in the military coup of January 1966.
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Dedan Kimathi was born on 31 October 1920 in Nyeri District, Kenya. He became a leading figure in the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule, helping to build formal military structures within the Kenya Land and Freedom Army and convening a war council in 1953. British forces captured him on 21 October 1956 and he was hanged at Kamiti prison on 18 February 1957. A statue in his honour stands on Kimathi Street in Nairobi.
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Marcus Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and died on 10 June 1940 in London. In 1914 he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which grew into the largest mass movement of people of African descent in the twentieth century. He published the Negro World newspaper and launched the Black Star Line shipping venture. His Pan-Africanist message of racial pride and self-reliance shaped movements across Africa and the diaspora.
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Obafemi Awolowo was born on 6 March 1909 in Ikenne and died there on 9 May 1987. He founded and led the Action Group, and served as the first Premier of the Western Region from 1954 to 1960. In that office he introduced free primary education for all and established the first television service in Africa in 1959. He later served as Federal Commissioner for Finance from 1967 to 1971 and wrote Path to Nigerian Freedom.
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Nnamdi Azikiwe was born on 16 November 1904 in Zungeru and died on 11 May 1996 in Enugu. Known across the continent as Zik of Africa, he founded the West African Pilot in 1937 and turned the paper into a platform for Nigerian nationalism. He co-founded the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons in 1944, served as Premier of the Eastern Region from 1954 to 1959, became Governor-General in 1960 and first President of Nigeria in 1963.
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