Nnamdi Azikiwe Quote

Nnamdi Benjamin Azikiwe PC (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), usually referred to as Zik, was a Nigerian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who served as the 3rd and first black governor-general of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and the first president of Nigeria during the First Nigerian Republic (1963–1966). He was widely regarded as the father of Nigerian nationalism as the driving force behind the nation's independence in 1960.
Born in Zungeru in the present-day Niger State to Igbo parents from Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria, Azikiwe learned to speak Hausa which was the main indigenous language of the Northern Region, Nigeria. He was later sent to live with his aunt and grandmother in his hometown Onitsha, where he learnt Igbo language. A bit staying in Lagos State also exposed him to learning also the Yoruba language, and by the time he was in college, he had been exposed to different Nigerian cultures and spoke three languages.
Azikiwe was well travelled. He moved to the United States where he was called Ben Azikiwe, and attended Storer College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Howard University. He contacted colonial authorities with a request to represent Nigeria at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics since he was also an athlete. He returned to Africa in 1934, where he started working as a journalist in Gold Coast (present day Ghana). During the British West Africa, Azikiwe advocated as a political activist and journalist, for Nigerian and African nationalism.