Contest #3: Tell us about “A Freedom Fighter of Your Country” || by @mato445 (100% powered up)

In each country or state there is a leaders or popular people who made huge contributions to the growth of the country. My country, Nigeria is not an exception. In Nigeria’s history, there are some. people who fight and made numerous efforts to make sure that Nigeria will take her worthy position as a giant. Not just in Africa alone but also the world at large.
In this article, i will be talking about a Nigerian hero with the name Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe who fought for our freedom, he is one of a great hero Nigerians will never forget.

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HIS EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Azikiwe was born on 16 November 1904 in Zungeru, Northern Nigeria. His first name means "my father is alive" in the Igbo language, and his parents were Igbo.
His father, Obed-Edom Chukwuemeka Azikiwe, a native Onye Onicha, was a clerk in the British Administration of Nigeria who traveled extensively as part of his job. Azikiwe's mother was Rachel Chinwe Ogbenyeanu (Aghadiuno) Azikiwe.
As a young boy Azikiwe spoke Hausa, the regional language.His father, concerned about his son's fluency in Hausa and not Igbo, sent him to Onitsha in 1912 to live with his paternal grandmother and aunt to learn the Igbo language and culture.
EDUCATIONAL LIFE
In Onitsha, Azikiwe attended Holy Trinity School (a Roman Catholic mission school) and Christ Church School (an Anglican primary school).In 1914, while his father was working in Lagos, Azikiwe was bitten by a dog; this prompted his worried father to ask him to come to Lagos to heal and to attend school in the city. His father was sent to Kaduna two years later, and Azikiwe briefly lived with a relative who was married to a Muslim from Sierra Leone. In 1918, he was back in Onitsha and finished his elementary education at CMS Central School. Azikiwe then worked at the school as a student-teacher.
After completing his secondary education, Azikiwe applied to the colonial service and was accepted as a clerk in the' treasury department. His time in the colonial service exposed him to racial bias in the colonial government. Determined to travel abroad for further education, Azikiwe applied to universities in the U.S. He was admitted by Storer College, To fund his living expenses and tuition, he competed in athletics and on cross-country teams before transferring to Howard University in Washington, D.C. He then enrolled at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1930, receiving a master's degree in religion in 1932. Azikiwe became a graduate-student instructor in the history and political-science departments at Lincoln University, He was a candidate for a doctoral degree at Columbia University before returning to Nigeria in 1934. Azikiwe's doctoral research focused on Liberia in world politics.
POLITICAL LIFE
He entered politics, co-founding the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) with Herbert Macaulay in 1944. Azikiwe became governor-general on 16 November 1960, and became the first Nigerian named to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. When Nigeria became a republic in 1963, he was its first president. In both posts, Azikiwe's role was largely ceremonial.
He and his civilian colleagues were removed from office in the 15 January 1966 military coup, and he was the most prominent politician to avoid assassination after the coup.
He established the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1960, and Queen Elizabeth II appointed him to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. He was made Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), Nigeria's highest national honour, in 1980.
He left politics involuntarily after the 31 December 1983 military coup.

Azikiwe died aged 91 on 11 May 1996 at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu after a long illness, and is buried in his native Onitsha.
I want to thank @boss75 for organizing this beautiful contest.

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