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Nnamdi Azikiwe, PC, (16 November 1904 – 11 May 1996), usually referred to as 'Zik', was a Nigerian statesman who served as the Governor General of Nigeria from 1960 to 1963 and as the first President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966 when Nigeria became a republic. He is popularly considered a driving force behind the nation's independence and came to be known as the "father of Nigerian Nationalism". Born to Igbo parents in Zungeru, present-day Niger State, as a young boy, he learned to speak Hausa, the main indigenous language of the Northern Region. Azikiwe was later sent to live with his aunt and grandmother in Onitsha, his parental homeland, where he learned the Igbo language. A sojourn in Lagos exposed him to the Yoruba language and by the time he was in college, he had been exposed to different Nigerian cultures and spoke three languages which became a valuable asset as president of Nigeria. Motivated to get a university education, he traveled to the United States and attended Storer College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Howard University before returning to Africa in 1934, where he began work as a journalist in the Gold Coast. In British West Africa, Azikiwe was an advocate of Nigerian and African nationalism, first as a journalist and later as a political leader.

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