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305:. This in turn ignited a wave discontent within leftist circles in the North, on 8 August 1950, a conference of leftist individuals representing the Spikin Movement and pro-Zungeru modernists at a building in Yoruba road, Kano issued the Sawaba Declaration; a proclamation of a political front calling for a socialist revolution in Northern Nigeria, the Student wing of the party called Zahar Haqu had members such as 214: 316:
After a protracted struggle within the party between Abba Maikwaru and Malam Aminu Kano (then a school teacher). A shift of support by the Spikin Movement in the Lafiya Convention of 1953 resulted in a victory for Aminu Kano from then on, Aminu Kano was to dominate the party infrastructure until
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on 8 August 1950, it was the offshoot of a pre-existing political association called the Northern Elements Progressive Association. It became the main opposition party in Northern Nigeria after the region was granted self-governance in the 1950s. In the
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of the original Hausa document published by the party in 1953 called on the 'Talakawa' or populace to launch a 'class struggle against the ruling class'.
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In the late 1940s, the dawning of a constitutional conference (the Richards Constitution) spurred a crisis in the then Socio-Cultural Association of
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1964, when the same radicals that supported him turned against him and created a parallel structure called the
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African Revolutionary, the life and times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano
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championed a form of radical modernization they called
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Index

Aminu Kano
Northern People's Congress
Spikin Movement
People's Redemption Party
Kano
Northern Nigeria
Student wing
Zahar Haqu
Youth wing
Rundunar Samarin Sawaba
Askiyanist Movement
Ideology
Socialist economics
Social liberalism
Democratic humanism
Nigerian nationalism

Politics of Nigeria
Political parties
Elections
political party
Northern Nigeria
Kano
First Republic
Zikist
National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons
Northern People's Congress
Northern Nigeria
NPC
Sa'adu Zungur

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