| LC control no. | n 50030500 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987 |
| Variant(s) | Avolovo, Obafemi, 1909-1987 Awo, 1909-1987 Awolowo, Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi, 1909-1987 |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1909-03-06 |
| Death date | 1987-05-09 |
| Place of birth | Ikene (Nigeria) |
| Field of activity | Law Nigeria--Politics and government |
| Affiliation | Nigerian Youth Movement Egbe Omo Oduduwa Unity Party of Nigeria Nigerian Produce Traders' Association Nigeria. Trades Union Congress Yoruba Action Group Party |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Lawyers |
| Found in | His Path to Nigerian freedom, 1947. His Awo on the Nigerian Civil War, 1982: t.p. (Obafemi Awolowo) intro. (Awo) Uwanaka, C.U. Zik & Awo in political storm, 1982 or 1983: p. 5 (Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo; Obafemi Awolowo) Joseph, L. Awo!, 1987: p. 37 (d. May 9, 1987) Obafemi Awolowo and the making of Remo, c2009: p. 229 (Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987) Awolowo's conception of equal educational opportunity, 2011: p. vii (Chief Obafemi Awolowo, b. Mar. 6, 1909 in Ikenne, Ogun State; law degree, UK, 1944; called to Inner Temple Bar, London, 1946; first premier of Western Region, 1955) The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, accessed June 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Awolowo, Obafemi; political figure; born 1909 in Ikene, Nigeria; advanced his education while also engaged as a newspaper reporter, produce broker, money lender, and clerk (the 1930s); active in such organizations as the Nigerian Produce Traders' Association, the Trades Union Congress of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Youth Movement (by the 1940s); a bachelor of Commerce degree; went to London to study law (in the mid-1940s); founded the Egbe Omo Oduduwa, Yoruba political and cultural organization, there (1945); it expanded into the mainly Yoruba Action Group party (1951); headed the Western Region government (1951-1959); became the opposition leader after the pre-independence federal election (1959); sentenced to ten years for treason during the troubled prelude to the 1966-1970 civil war (1963-1966); joined the federal side in the war as Commissioner for Finance; leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria; won the presidency (1983); died 1987, place unknown) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 91099628 |
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