Mallam Aminu Kano Launches the People's Redemption Party | Nigeria | October 1978
Автор: Adeyinka Makinde
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Monday, October 23rd 1978.
Footage of Mallam Aminu Kano (1920-1983) launching his political party, the People's Redemption Party (PRP) in preparation for the 1979 Presidential Elections.
The Nigerian Military Government was scheduled to hand over power to an elected civilian administration the following year.
Source of footage: Reuters News Archive.
Note:
1. Aminu Kano led a socialist party which opposed British rule during the 1940s.
2. In the 1950s he formed the Northern Elements Progressive Union, a left-wing party, which sought to emancipate the "Talakawas", or common people, poor and uneducated Hausas of Nigeria's Northern Region. He criticised the traditional Northern establishment which he saw as Feudalistic and not progressive. In doing so he drew upon Islamic teachings about equity and sought to make the society more egalitarian.
NEPU campaigned for full voting rights for women in Northern Nigeria as well as the right for women to hold office.
3. He served as a Member of Parliament during Nigeria's First Republic and then as a Federal Commissioner for Communications and a Federal Commissioner for Health under the military regime of General Yakubu Gowon.
4. A teacher by training, Aminu Kano came from a line of Islamic scholars.
5. "Mallam" means a "learned man" or "scribe" in Hausa.
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