July 1965 - Bello The Man Behind The Legend - The Sardauna

July 1965 - Bello The Man Behind The Legend - The Sardauna visits a pottery studio in the north. He strides the Nigerian scene aloof and inscrutable. To most Nigerians, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto and Premier of the North, is more a legend than a man. But man he is. A truly remarkable man who disdains wealth, who rules the giant North yet owns only ten acres of land, who works and prays for his people with such inspired energy that he sleeps only in snatches, whose exemplary life has shamed the corrupt. Drum Editor NELSON OTTAH, who went to the north to meet the Sardauna, tells on these pages of the man behind the legend. His interview with Sir Ahmadu is the most revealing ever published. (Photograph by Matthew Faji Photographer @ BAHA)

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