Chief Obafemi Awolowo
IF Oduduwa was the father of the Yoruba, Chief Obafemi Awolowo is the great
leader of the Yoruba people. He was the first premier of the Western
Region of Nigeria, and what he achieved for his people, nobody before or up to
date has done the same for the Yoruba.
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| Chief Obafemi Awolowo - The great Yoruba leader |
He was a great gift to the Yoruba and to Nigeria as a whole from God, and to this he was
anoited by God to lead, but only his people accepted him.For all the good things he achieved for the Yoruba, other parts of the country taged him a tribalist. As idea was, "Charity begins at home" He thouht proving that he was capable at , would eventually make the rest of the country to accept him as the leader of Nigeria. Awolowo was born in a well-been family, but
the death of his father when he was a teenager made him went through hard
time, but despite that, he was chosen by God like Moses to lead the Yoruba to the
promised land.
He strongly believed in educating his people, because as a
politician later, he prefered learned electors rather than illitrate electors,
so he launched the universal primary education for all yoruba youths, in early fifties, and also created secondary schools.
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| Chief Jeremah Obafemi Awolowo |
Awolowo created 'mordern three' education to permit a little gap
between the primary and Secondary schools and University. He instituted the University of Ife at Ile-Ife in the holy city of the Yoruba. He also created the (CRIN) Cocoa Research
Institute of Nigeria. In the late fities he introduced the redifusion to the
Western Region and brought the Television broacasting service to the
Yorubaland, the first in the whole of Africa, even before the white governed South
Africa.
Chief Awolowo was one of the three major authors of Nigeria’
Independence of Nigeria, He was a taged even by the British, 'The man with plan'
There were a lot more achievements, and weekly we‘ll list many
of them, which included a Newspaper 'Herald Tribune', and Wema bank, and both still exist today.
As a political leader, he had men in his Political party, AG (Action
Group) whom we can term as his disciples, and also a
traitor, but this will be explained in future notes.
