Celebrate Nigeria
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Obafemi Awolowo
Chief Obafemi Awolowo (1909-1987) was a visionary statesman whose progressive policies transformed Western Nigeria. As P...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Fela Kuti (1938-1997) created Afrobeat—a fusion of jazz, funk, highlife, and traditional Yoruba music. His songs like "Z...
Ayodele Awojobi
Professor Ayodele Awojobi (1937-1984) was a brilliant mechanical engineer and inventor. He earned Bachelor's and Doctora...
King Sunny Adé
King Sunny Adé (born 1946) revolutionized Jùjú music by incorporating electric guitars, synthesizers, and pedal steel gu...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Adichie (born 1977) is Nigeria's most celebrated contemporary writer. Her novels include "Purple Hibiscus" (C...
Wole Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka (born 1934) made history as Africa's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1986). His plays inc...
Ahmadu Bello
Sir Ahmadu Bello (1910-1966), Sardauna of Sokoto, successfully balanced modernization with tradition. As Premier of Nort...
Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali (born 1954) is a computer scientist whose work in parallel processing earned recognition as one of the ...
Herbert Macaulay
Herbert Macaulay (1864-1946) founded Nigeria's first political party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP) in 1...
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Dr. Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe (1904-1996), known as "Zik of Africa," was Nigeria's first President and a towering figure i...
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was a literary giant whose novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958) revolutionized African literature....