President Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria
Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996) was one of the foremost Nigerian and West African nationalists and the first president of Nigeria. He was popularly known as “Zik” or “Zik of Africa”.
Before taking the position of the President of Nigeria, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe took the position of the country’s Governor-General in 1960. Azik was in the Gold Coast from 1934 to 1937, where he became a mentor to Kwame Nkrumah, who would later become the president of Ghana.
