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The ''West African Pilot'' was a newspaper launched in Nigeria by Nnamdi Azikiwe ("Zik") in 1937, dedicated to fighting for independence from British colonial rule. ==Foundation and growth== When the paper was launched its quality and professionalism launched it atop other newspapers of the period which generally pandered to colonial authorities or ethnocentric interests. The most prominent newspaper that lost circulation as a result was the ''Nigerian Daily Times'' originally owned by the Mirror Group of London. The paper's lively mix of radical politics and gossip, plus a woman's page, was highly popular. The newspaper played a key role in the spread of racial consciousness and nationalistic ideas in the interior of Nigeria. Its motto was "Show the light and the people will find the way". Azikiwe personally edited the ''West African Pilot'' from 1937 to 1947. The West African Pilot gave birth to a chain of newspapers that were positioned as city newspapers in such places as Port Harcourt, Warri, Enugu, Ibadan, and Kano. All the titles were then owned by "Zik's Press Limited". Titles included the ''Eastern Nigerian Guardian'' launched in 1940 in Port Harcourt, the ''Nigerian Spokesman'' in Onitsha (1943) and the ''Southern Defender'' in Warri, the "Sentinel" in Enugu. In 1945, Zik's group bought Mohammed Ali's ''Comet'', four years later converting it into a daily newspaper and then transferring it to Kano, where it was the first daily in the north. The ''Northern Advocate'' was also launched in 1949, in Jos. On 8 July 1945 the government banned the ''West African Pilot'' and the ''Daily Comet'' for misrepresenting facts about the general strike. This did not silence Azikiwe, who continued to print articles and editorials on the strike in his Port Harcourt ''Guardian''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West African Pilot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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