| LC control no. | n 79069865 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PL8234.B3 |
| Personal name heading | Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa, Sir, 1912-1966 |
| Associated country | Nigeria |
| Birth date | 1912 |
| Death date | 1966 |
| Place of birth | Tafawa Balewa (Nigeria) |
| Place of death | Lagos (Nigeria) |
| Affiliation | University of London. Institute of Education Northern People's Congress (Northern Nigeria, Nigeria : 1951- 1966) Northern Teacher's Association (Nigeria) Northern Teacher's Association (Northern Nigeria, Nigeria : 1951-1966) Nigeria. Prime minister |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Teachers Prime ministers Author |
| Found in | Nigeria speaks, 1964. Shaihu Umar, 1989: t.p. (Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Tafawa Balewa, Abubakar; teacher; prime minister of Nigeria; born in December 1912 in the village of Tafawa Balewa, in Bauchi province, Northern Nigeria; received a teacher's certificate in history from the University of London's Institute of Education (1945-1946); elected vice president of the Northern Teacher's Association (1948); in 1949 he helped organize the Northern People's Congress (NPC), originally conceived as a cultural organization but which by 1951 had become a full-fledged political party; in 1951, in the Northern Nigeria's first elections, Balewa won seats in the House of Assembly and in the House of Representatives in Lagos, where he became a minister in the Central Council; became Nigeria's first prime minister after the NPC won the most seats in the 1957 elections; assassinated at a staged military coup; died in January 1966) |
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