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272:"misguided small boys" when they decided to punish some of the Yoruba chiefs. The punishment entailed ā in part ā a massive cut to the salary/stipend paid by the government to the Yoruba chiefs. Samuel Akisanya, in particular, had his payments reduced to 1 penny annually, earning him the nickname "a penny a year Oba". In November 1968, peasants attacked Akisanya for allegedly supporting the government's aggressive tax collection policy.
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Akisanya became the organising secretary of the
Nigerian Produce Traders Union (N.P.T.U.) and President of the Nigerian Motor Transport Union between 1932 and 1940. He was one of the founders of the Lagos Youth Movement in 1934, which was later renamed the Nigerian Youth Movement (NYM) in 1936. Other
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formed a buying agreement, a cartel to control the price paid to producers of cocoa and to cut out the middlemen. The N.P.T.U., which represented these middlemen and was led by
Akisanya, launched an effective public attack on the agreement. The union organised protest meetings and threatened to hold
157:. He attended the Anglican School in Ishara, then obtained work as a shorthand typist and writer from 1916 to 1931. Around 1923, the Study Circle was founded in Lagos, with a number of prominent young members including Akisanya, H.A. Subair, R.A. Coker, Olatunji Caxton-Martins and
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182:.Akisanya was appointed general secretary and later became Vice-President of the movement. The initial stimulus for founding the movement was controversy over the standard of education to be offered by the newly founded
186:, but the NYM was to grow into Nigeria's first genuinely nationalist organisation. In 1938, Akisanya was one of the seven subscribers to the Service Press Limited, which acquired the assets and liabilities of the
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up transport of the crop, or in extreme to destroy the crop. The government attempted to defuse the crisis by supporting opponents of
Akisanya. Eventually it blew over when cocoa prices rose the next year.
218:. Akisanya was Vice-President of the party while Ikoli had recently been elected president to replace Abayomi. At a general meeting of the NYM, Akisanya received 108 votes, Ikoli received 60 and
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of Isara. He held this position from 1941 until his death in 1985. He was a member of the
Western House of Chiefs from 1952 until 1961. Akisanya was a founding member of the
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of Isara, an office which he held from 1941 until his death. He is today widely regarded as the greatest king in the history of the city.
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received 37. However, the executive chose not to endorse the vote but instead declared that Ikoli was selected. Akisanya, supported by
161:. The group sponsored essay-writing, lectures, debates and book reviews, and later became a forum for discussing political issues.
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214:. Akisanya sought to be the NYM candidate for the vacant seat, competing against the distinguished journalist Ernest Ikoli, an
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Yoruba. Akisanya resigned from the NYM and ran as an independent, but lost to Ikoli. A press war followed between the
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637:Olusanya, Gabriel Olakunle (1973).
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537:. University of California Press.
534:Nigeria: background to nationalism
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499:Asuzu, Okechukwu Jones (2005).
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260:from 1952 to 1955. During the
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206:In 1941, the NYM President
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531:Coleman, James S. (1971).
288:Gann, Brian (3 May 2011).
170:founding members were Dr.
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159:Adetokunbo Ademola
137:. He was also the
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180:H.O. Davies
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