Abubakar Tafawa Balewa

In 1933 Balewa wrote Shaihu Umar, a Hausa novella about a pious Muslim, first published in 1934 and later translated into English by Mervyn Hiskett; it was staged as a play in the 1970s and filmed in 1976 ¹. Entering politics, he was elected to the Northern House of Assembly, became a federal minister, and at independence on 1 October 1960 became Nigeria's first prime minister — the only man ever to hold that office ^{1 2}.

Balewa was overthrown and murdered in the military coup of 15 January 1966, in which his old companion Ahmadu Bello was also killed. His body was discovered at a roadside near Lagos six days later and was buried in Bauchi; the circumstances of his death remain unresolved ¹.

No article's text states Balewa's own religion. His Bauchi madrasa schooling is formation, and the "pious Muslim" of the English article's literary section is the hero of his novella, not Balewa himself. The articles' categories file him under "Nigerian Muslims" and Wikidata gives only Islam — filings and a single structured value, which never count as attestations, and no source names a school. The record therefore keeps his affiliation unknown ^{1 3 4 2}.

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