West African Pilot (newspaper)

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West African Pilot was an influential Nigerian newspaper founded by nationalist leader Nnamdi Azikiwe that played a key role in the struggle for independence from British colonial rule.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf daily newspaper
newspaper
affiliation National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
associatedMovement African nationalist movement
Nigerian independence movement
associatedWith NCNC
circulationArea Lagos Colony
Southern Nigeria
continent Africa
country Nigeria
countryOfPublication Nigeria
editorialStance anti-colonial
pro-independence
endPublicationYear 1960s
format broadsheet
founder Nnamdi Azikiwe
genre nationalist press
political newspaper
hasContributor Nigerian nationalist writers
headquartersLocation Lagos
historicalContext British colonial rule in Nigeria
historicalPeriod late colonial Nigeria
inception 1937
language English
location Lagos
medium print
notableEditor Nnamdi Azikiwe
notableFor editorials criticizing colonial policies
influential role in Nigerian struggle for independence
mass political mobilization through the press
owner Nnamdi Azikiwe
partOf Azikiwe’s newspaper chain
politicalAlignment Nigerian nationalism
anti-colonialism
publisher Nnamdi Azikiwe
region West Africa
roleInHistory instrument of nationalist mobilization in Nigeria
platform for anti-colonial criticism of British administration
vehicle for promoting pan-African ideas
startPublicationYear 1937
status defunct
subject African nationalism
British colonial rule in Nigeria
Nigerian independence movement
targetAudience educated African elite in Nigeria
urban Nigerian population

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Nnamdi Azikiwe notableWork West African Pilot (newspaper)