page_title: National Association of Seadogs
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: National Association of Seadogs / History
caption_attribution_description: w:Wole Soyinka
context_page_description: The National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as Pyrates Confraternity is a confraternity organization in Nigeria that is nominally University-based. The group was founded in 1952 by the "Magnificent Seven" to support for human rights and social justice in Nigeria.
context_section_description: Due to the increase of tribalism among social life of students and the increasing population of "wealthy" students to a relatively few "poorer" students in the University College, Ibadan, the National Association of Seadogs was formed as a body in order to combat these societal ills. Founded in 1952 by seven friends made up of renowned Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Wole Soyinka, Ralph Opara, Pius Oleghe, Ikpehare Aig-Imoukhuede (left), Nathaniel Oyelola, Olumuyiwa Awe and Sylvanus U. Egbuche who adopted the name "Magnificent 7", the Pyrates Confraternity went on to become the only confraternity on Nigerian campuses for almost 20 years. Membership into the confraternity was open to students who were bright academically regardless of their tribe or religion.
  
  Presently, the Pyrates confraternity is located in all the southern states in Nigeria and also has branches in some parts of the world including the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States. Some sinister confraternities have been formed to copy the Pyrates confraternity which led the Pyrates confraternity to dissociate itself from these organizations and also operate outside university campuses.
  The confraternity is also presently seen as a "political opponent" after several members in Port Harcourt where detained in jail for participating in the disruption of election campaigns in 1997. To date, over 25,000 people have belonged to the organization at various stages.
caption: Wole Soyinka was one of the founding members of the National Association of Seadogs
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