Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Amodu Tijani, Chief Oluwa of Lagos NPG x84007

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Tijani was an Idejo Chief who controlled a series of villages and towns in the Lagos area. He held strong nationalist views, arguing that the British colonial government had no authority to interfere with the Oba's (ruler of Lagos) rule. In 1920, Oluwa and Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay visited the Privy Council in London to defend the Oba's right of ownership to land appropriated by the British Government. The Council ruled in their favour. This case proved to be a landmark in Nigerian history as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.