Pan-Africanism Archives

Activists, Friends, Admirers to Memorialise Prof Abu Momoh, Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem June 3rd, 2024

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: CDD, Civil society, Pan-Africanism, Social movement, ‘Áfrican president’No CommentsViews:

Activists, friends and admirers of the late Prof Abu Momoh as well as Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem have another opportunity to memorialise their departure. The memorial event for this year come... Read more

Between Civil Society and Social Movements By CDD

Posted By: adminon: May 27, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Abubakar Momoh, Coups, DEMOCRACY, Neoliberalism, Pan-Africanism, Tajudeen Abdulraheem, West Africa, ‘Polycrisis’No CommentsViews:

The Centre for Democracy and Development – West Africa (CDD) is operationalizing a Concept Note for a memorial event in honour of Dr. Tajudeen Abdulraheem and Prof Abubakar Momoh. The event... Read more

A Memorial for the Pan-Africanist of the Everyday

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: LifeworldTags: NIGERIA, NLC, Pan-AfricanismNo CommentsViews:

He was a spectacle at whichever head office of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) you met him, be it at Yaba in Lagos or at the Central Business District in Abuja. He wasn’t a sentry b... Read more

The African World’s Debt to W.E.B. Du Bois

Posted By: adminon: January 19, 2022In: LifeworldTags: Chairman Mao of China, CHINA, Double Consciousness, Dr. Nmandi Azikiwe, Jomo Kenyatta, Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union, Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, USA, USSRNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta I have just finished reading David Levering Lewis’ two-volume biography of the African American intellectual and architect of the American Civil Rights Movement, Dr W.E.B. Du B... Read more

Anglican Girls Grammar School, Abuja Students Stage Mock OAU

Posted By: adminon: October 19, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Akin Adesina, Girl child, Pan-Africanism, Prof Okello OculiNo CommentsViews:

Several decades after the famous Mock OAU Summit series at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, students of the Anglican Girls Grammar School, Abuja are enacting a session again. The simulati... Read more

125th Anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, an African Victory

Posted By: adminon: March 02, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Adwa victory, AGAVA, Cuba, Ethiopianism, Haiti, Pan-AfricanismNo CommentsViews:

It is March 2nd, 2021 and the 125th anniversary of the battle of Adwa in 1896 where European/Italian forces were given the beating of their life by Ethiopian forces. It is appropriately an A... Read more

Nigerians Reflect on Dr Yima Sen and Radical Politics

Posted By: adminon: November 10, 2020In: LifeworldTags: Baze University - Abuja, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, Social Democratic PartyNo CommentsViews:

It will be another Nigeria in conversation Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 when radical nationalists, patriots, family, friends, colleagues and sundry activists gather to pay homage to the la... Read more

Like the 1930 Depression, Africa is Going to Pay for Post COVID-19 Recession – Pan-African Activists Warn

Posted By: adminon: May 30, 2020In: World From AfricaTags: Funtua, Ogbomosho, Pan-Africanism, SAP, Washington Consensus, ‘African condition’No CommentsViews:

One of the ironies of COVID 19 played out today as what was hitherto unthinkable became practicable. The physical gathering for an Africa wide conversation around the life and times of two P... Read more

The Abubakar Momoh and Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Mystique

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2019In: LifeworldTags: ASUU, INEC, International IDEA, LASU, NEPA, OSIWA, Pan-Africanism, UNILAGNo CommentsViews:

Very symbolic individuals in that circuit were already on the ground before it was 9 O’clock on June 11th, 2019 when the two of them were remembered for the umpteenth time. The two in... Read more

A Murtala Was Here 43 Years A Go

Posted By: adminon: February 13, 2019In: LifeworldTags: Pan-AfricanismNo CommentsViews:

“The military came in as political physicians but ended up as political patients requiring even greater dosages of the medicinal prescription they had come in to serve to politicians”, That... Read more