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Azikiwe

American  
[ah-zee-kee-wey] / ˌɑ ziˈki weɪ /

noun

  1. Nnamdi Zik, 1904–1996, Nigerian statesman: president 1963–66.


Azikiwe British  
/ ˌɑːziːˈkiːweɪ /

noun

  1. Nnamdi ( ə nˈnæmdɪ) 1904–96, Nigerian statesman; first president of Nigeria (1963–66)

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An Arik airline flight takes off from the domestic wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Nigeria July 8, 2020.

From Reuters • May 8, 2022

She arrived at Nnamdi Azikiwe international Airport in Abuja on 16 November.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2022

British colonial authorities arrested Azikiwe in 1935 and tried him for sedition, and his exoneration affirmed local newspapers’ “right to their public space, the small freedom to debate among themselves,” Beckerman writes.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Nnamdi Azikiwe, a Nigerian recently returned to the continent who became its editor, imagined it as a place for conversation, where Accra’s literate population could come together.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2022

Peters, 36, said most of the corpses and the few badly injured victims were evacuated to the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital in Nnewi.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2015