There are many of them nowadays – burials or birthdays or a book presentations for one activist of yore or another. At each one of such event, nostalgia for the past pops up, sometimes... Read more
Although a return to the barricades looks farfetched, a powerful sense of the radical project in Nigeria as an unfinished mission struck activists and mourners of Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohamme... Read more
A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more
A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more
He underwent a surgical operation about three weeks ago but he himself described it as a minor surgery. In any case, it was after the surgery that he addressed the Fanon Centenary held at th... Read more
By Prof Hassan A. Saliu The discourse surrounding the role of scholars in politics persists in Nigeria, precipitating a dichotomy between two distinct perspectives. The first posits that aca... Read more
On December 12th, 1984 starting from 4 pm at the University of Lagos, Prof Anthony Asiwaju, then the Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts, delivered an Inaugural Lecture crisply titled A... Read more
By Comrade John Odah It has been a week of deaths for some of us, forcing one to confront the challenge of a decent ‘good night’ to the departed patriots. As Hon. Barrister George Uchi (clas... Read more
By Prof Hassan Saliu The news of the death of Prof. Aja Kpuru-Aja on the 16th of March, 2024 came to me as a rude shock because I never heard of him being indisposed prior to his death. Alth... Read more
For a country such as Nigeria where “Nigeriens are not aliens in Nigeria” was the title of the memorable pan-regional essay by the late Dr Mahmud Modibbo Tukur, Historian and former ASUU Pre... Read more
