K. O. Mbadiwe: A Nigerian Political Biography, 1915-1990

by Hollis R. Lynch

This book offers a comprehensive political biography of Kingsley Ozuomba Mbadiwe, (1915-1990), a central figure in Nigerian political history for more than forty years. Starting in 1936 as a prot g of Nnamdi Azikiwe, then Nigeria's most renowned nationalist, Mbadiwe himself by the 1950s became a frontline nationalist. And next to Tafawa Balewa from the North who became Prime Minster in 1957, he was the most important figure in the Nigerian Federal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137002611
• ISBN13: 9781137002617
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 9.2"