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.

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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