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Nigerian nationalism asserts that Nigerians as a nation should promote the cultural unity of Nigerians. [1] [2] Nigerian nationalism is territorial nationalism and emphasizes a cultural connection of the people to the land, particularly the Niger and the Benue Rivers. [3] It first emerged in the 1920s under the influence of Herbert Macaulay ...
During the war, he composed songs in support of the British war effort and Nigerian soldiers in Burma, one such song was a popular hit, The Five Nigerian R.A.F [2] about five Nigerian trainees enrolled with the Royal Air Force. Wright grew up in Olowogbowo, then a neighborhood dominated by Saro residents. He changed his last name from Wright to ...
Herbert Macaulay was born on 14 November 1864 on Broad Street, Lagos, [4] [5] to the family of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Abigail Crowther. His parents were children of people captured from what is now Nigeria, resettled in Sierra Leone by the British West Africa Squadron, and eventual returnees to present day Nigeria. [6]
Mazi Mbonu Ojike (c 1914 - November 29, 1956) was a Nigerian nationalist and writer. He advanced from a choirmaster, organist, and teacher in an Anglican school to become a student in America and then a cultural and economic nationalist. He was the Second Vice President NCNC [1] and Deputy Mayor of Lagos in 1951. Ojike was known as the "boycott ...
Arise, O Compatriots is a Nigerian patriotic song that was used as the national anthem of Nigeria from 1 October 1978 until 2024, when Nigeria, We Hail Thee was reinstated. On 29 May 2024, "Arise, O Compatriots" was officially relinquished followed by the readoption of the first national anthem, "Nigeria, We Hail Thee" used from 1960 until 1978.
This is a list of notable Nigerian musical groups. For individual musicians, see List of Nigerian musicians . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1936, he began work as an announcer for The Post and Telegraph department in Lagos, when rediffusion radio service began in Lagos, Abdallah transferred his services to the new department as a radio announcer in Lagos, he became familiar with the nationalist writings of Nnamdi Azikiwe who had just begun publishing his West African Pilot.