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The 1957 Nigerian Constitutional Conference


The principal speakers at the opening of the Nigerian Constitutional Conference shown at Lancaster House, London, May 23, 1957. Left to right are; Chief Obafemi Awolowo; premier of Western Nigeria, Alan Lennox Boyd, Secretary of State for the colonies; Alhaji Ahmadu, Sardauna of Sokoto; and Prime Minister of Northern Nigeria; Sir James Robertson Governor General of the Federation of Nigeria and Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Premier of Eastern Nigeria.

Image Courtesy of BBC World Service


On Tour - but in London! The 1957 Article


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