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Dynamic Party was a Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n political party
Political party
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 headed by the mathematician
Mathematician
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 and erudite scholar Chike Obi
Chike Obi
Chike Obi was a Nigerian politician, mathematician and professor.The African Mathematics Union suggests that he was the first sub-Saharan African to hold a doctorate in mathematics....

. It was inaugurated in Ibadan
Ibadan
Ibadan is the capital city of Oyo State and the third largest metropolitan area in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano, with a population of 1,338,659 according to the 2006 census. Ibadan is also the largest metropolitan geographical area...

 on April 7, 1951. The party embraced Kemalism, and was cautious about the early movement towards self-government.

The party was one of the first pre-independence parties to publish a well organized manifesto. In its manifesto
Manifesto
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, it sought to contest the mad rush towards self-government by the Action Group, embrace cooperation with European
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s and Americans
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, promote national loyalty and improve communications in Nigerian divisions, starting from Ishan
Ishan
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, Egbado
Egbado
The Egbado, now Yewa, are a clan of the Yoruba people, and inhabit the eastern area of Ogun West Senatorial District, Ogun State, in south-west Nigeria, Africa. In 1995 they changed their name to the Yewa...

 and Ekiti.

Chike Obi summarized his views of Nigerian Kemalism as
Some of the party's salient points included the recommendation and setting up of three military training schools and an 'institute of guerrilla warfare'. It also advocated the formation of a West African Republic made up of most of French, British, Spanish, and Portuguese West Africa, a West African 'Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
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', and a defensive alliance with India
India
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against South Africa.
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