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After losing his father at the age of ten, Awolowo worked as a teacher and journalist to complete his secondary education before moving into business....
Obafemi Awolowo (March 6, 1909 - May 9, 1987) was a Nigerian politician and leader, a Yoruba Chief, and native of Ikenne in the Ogun State of Nigeria, who started as a regional political leader like most of his pre-independence contemporaries.
In addition to being considered a founding father of Nigeria, he also founded many organizations, including Egbe Omo Oduduwa, the Trade Unions Congress of Nigeria and the Action Group political party. He was an active journalist and trade unionist as a young man, editing The Nigerian Worker amongst other publications while also organizing the Nigerian Produce Traders Association and serving as secretary of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union.
He was born in Lagos, Nigeria and educated there and at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Nigeria, he traveled to London to earn a law degree. He was also a member of the Nigerian delegation to the Constitutional talks there in 1957. He was the first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary system from 1954 to 1