Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (died 1987)

Obafemi Awolowo

Nigerian politician (1909–1987)

Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo was a Nigerian politician who served as the first Premier of the Western region of Nigeria. He was known as one of the key figure towards Nigeria's independence movement from 1957 to 1960. Awolowo founded the Yoruba nationalist group Egbe Omo…