Kayodedavies101:
Nobody have ever ask this question...
Why are all northern leaders Knighted before independence in 1960 and no single southern leaders was given that honour...
Nigeria is been build by the British so dat the North can dominate the south...

sir herbert macaulay amongst many. Stop the sentiment

Kayodedavies101:
Nobody have ever ask this question...
Why are all northern leaders Knighted before independence in 1960 and no single southern leaders was given that honour...
Nigeria is been build by the British so dat the North can dominate the south...

I do know when the Queen visited in 1956, she knighted Sir Akanu Ibiam and (i think) Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAP9noiyD8

Kayodedavies101:
Nobody have ever ask this question...
Why are all northern leaders Knighted before independence in 1960 and no single southern leaders was given that honour...
Nigeria is been build by the British so dat the North can dominate the south...

Ojukwu's father Sir Louis Ojukwu was also Knighted at the same time as Ahmadu Bello and Balewa also Knighted was Sir Ademola Adetokunbo Chief justice of Nigeria.

Once upon a time, the highest title in Nigeria was “Sir,” i.e. a person knighted by the British Queen with a KCMG [Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George]. The men who bore the title “Sir” were the grandest in Nigeria in those days. They were not so many. They include Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Kashim Ibrahim, Sir Aderemi Adesoji, Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, Sir Darnley Alexander, Sir Akanu Ibiam, Sir Abubakar III, Sir Usman Nagogo and Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony. I still do not know why Queen Elizabeth did not confer KCMG on Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

By now op, know he was asking an ignorant question.

I think so of them rejected the knighthood. They saw it as relics of the the colonial past. Nigeria then was about to move into a new era.
Of what use is the title Knight of the British empire to a full blooded and proud Nigerian in those days. Does anyone remember the Christian names of Chief Obafemi Awolowo or Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe? If shows that they were true nationalists.

Babanah:
I think so of them rejected the knighthood. They saw it as relics of the the colonial past. Nigeria then was about to move into a new era.
Of what use is the title Knight of the British empire to a full blooded and proud Nigerian in those days. Does anyone remember the Christian names of Chief Obafemi Awolowo or Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe? If shows that they were true nationalists.

Jeremiah and Benjamin, respectively.

But they left those names behind in their pursuit for African independence.

My point is most of the Nigerian elite wanted to demonstrate their newly won independence by doing away with the past.
Most Nigerian apart from catholics do not bear Christian names anymore. During the colonial era you must have a Christian (English) name if you are a Christian.

PROUDIGBO:


I do know when the Queen visited in 1956, she knighted Sir Akanu Ibiam and (i think) Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAP9noiyD8

Just noticed Ikembas' Dad and Mum (at 1.21) greeting the Queen on her visit to Enugu. He looks a bit like MKO Abiola doesn't he?

The much talked about Rolls is seen in the next clip.