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C. Odumegwu Ojukwu

1933 - 2011

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Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as President of the Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 during the Nigerian Civil War. He previously served as military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, which he declared as the independent nation of Biafra.Ojukwu was born in Zungeru, Nigeria during British colonial rule and was the son of Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, a wealthy and successful Igbo businessman. Ojukwu was educated at King's College, Lagos in Nigeria and Epsom College in Surrey, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. Odumegwu Ojukwu has received more than 802,463 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). C. Odumegwu Ojukwu is the 11,924th most popular politician (down from 11,292nd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Nigeria (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Nigerian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu ranks 11,924 out of 15,577. Before him are Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Álvaro Colom, Abdullah Senussi, Lester Bird, and Alger Hiss. After him are Qiao Shi, Iñaki Urdangarin, Skule Bårdsson, Georges Leygues, Mutassim Gaddafi, and Giuseppe Saracco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu ranks 247. Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi, Dianne Feinstein, Kerstin Ekman, Henry Darrow, Helmuth Rilling, and Chen Jingrun. After him are Brad Harris, Ercole Baldini, Javier Lozano Barragán, Jean Becker, William Smith, and Tsuneko Okazaki. Among people deceased in 2011, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu ranks 208. Before him are Arnfinn Bergmann, Hidemaro Watanabe, Jacques Fatton, Inge Sørensen, Sakyo Komatsu, and Nirmala Srivastava. After him are Mutassim Gaddafi, Sargent Shriver, Nicol Williamson, Nate Dogg, Valery Rozhdestvensky, and Romuald Klim.

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In Nigeria

Among people born in Nigeria, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu ranks 23 out of 236. Before him are Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977), Shehu Shagari (1925), Ernest Shonekan (1936), and Yakubu Gowon (1934). After him are Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (1954), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), Rashidi Yekini (1963), Amos Tutuola (1920), and Bennet Omalu (1968).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nigeria

Among politicians born in Nigeria, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu ranks 9. Before him are Sani Abacha (1943), Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (1951), Goodluck Jonathan (1957), Shehu Shagari (1925), Ernest Shonekan (1936), and Yakubu Gowon (1934). After him are Abdullah al-Thani (1954), Ibrahim Babangida (1941), Murtala Mohammed (1938), Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904), Abdulsalami Abubakar (1942), and Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi (1924).

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