Category: History – Political
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Nigerian Youth Movement was founded in 1934 to address the nonconfrontational accommodation of colonial order by the older generation of educated elites led by Herbert Macaulay. The political consciousness of the Lagos… read more
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West Africa Student Union is an organization established by British West African students in London in 1925 to foster West African nationalism and in the founders’ words; to combat the false and… read more
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Ladoke Akintola was the politician and the eighth Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland who in 26 March, 1957 moved his famous motion for Nigeria’s independence that was frustrated by gradualists who asked… read more
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Basorun Gaha was the despotic General of the Old Oyo Empire who made and destroyed three successive Alaafins. Basorun Gaha’s inglorious career commenced in the days when Labisi was being prepared for… read more
