Jaja Wachuku
✓ Source-basedfallingNigerian lawyer, politician and diplomat (1918-1996)
Jaja Anucha Ndubuisi Wachuku was a Pan-Africanist and a Nigerian statesman, lawyer, politician, diplomat and humanitarian. He was the first Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives; as well as the first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
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Jaja Wachuku![Wachuku [left: capped] as First indigenous Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives [during Nigeria's Independence Ceremonies on 1 October 1960] with Prime Minister Balewa and Princess Alexandra of Kent](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6a/Jaja-Wachuku2.jpeg/500px-Jaja-Wachuku2.jpeg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Wachuku [left: capped] as First indigenous Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives [during Nigeria's Independence Ceremonies on 1 October 1960] with Prime Minister Balewa and Princess Alexandra of Kent
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Wachuku in Speaker of the House Regalia
Wachuku with US President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Wachuku and Golda Meir: Prime Minister of Israel
Wachuku and US President Dwight D. EisenhowerPoliticians from Nigeria 6
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Jaja Anucha Ndubuisi Wachuku was a Pan-Africanist and a Nigerian statesman, lawyer, politician, diplomat and humanitarian. He was the first Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives; as well as the first Nigerian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Also, Wachuku was the first Nigerian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Notably, Wachuku was a Royal Prince of Ngwaland, "descendant of 20 generations of African chiefs in the Igbo country of Eastern Nigeria".
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