Obafemi Awolowo Demands Release From Prison And That Of His Colleagues
In 1963, Obafemi Awolowo, former prime minister of the now-defunct Western Region, and many of his followers were arrested, tried, convicted of treason, and imprisoned for conspiring with the Ghanaian authorities under Kwame Nkrumah to overthrow the Nigerian federal government. . On March 28, 1966, while in prison, Obafemi Awolowo wrote the following letter to…