Malam Umaru Altine, a Fulani man from Sifawa in the Sokoto Caliphate, was elected as the first Mayor of the city of Enugu, the capital of the old Eastern Region of Nigeria, the heartbeat of the Igbo nation, in 1952, and was in office till 1958. Altine was a cattle dealer who had left Sokoto to sojourn in Enugu, where he married an Igbo lady, named Esther, and was president of the Enugu branch of the youth wing of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). He is a...