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  Readers are referred to a short piece I wrote as my own contribution to the prefatory note for a 2021 "Book of Honour" done for me by the Nigerian Left, "Edwin Madunagu at 75: Tributes and Reflections". The book was edited by Comrade Chido Onumah. This tribute to Comrade Seinde Arigbede who died early this month, November 2022 "dovetails" with the prefatory notes.

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When Gani Fawehinmi died in September 2009, I put together an extended tribute for distribution in Calabar, Lagos and wherever the funeral would be.

Vanguard News Celebrating Eddie Madunagu: International revolutionary at 75 On By Owei Lakemfa Many in my generation first encountered the name Eddie Madunagu when we started actively reading  newspapers. He was a passionate Nigerian the Gowon regime threw into jail from January to May 1975 for fighting to end military rule and injustice and enthroning a Nigeria free of exploitation, poverty and want. In fact, I was to learn in later years that a major left political organisation he establish...

Edwin Madunagu, a Revolutionary Icon, at 75   Edwin Madunagu, a Revolutionary Icon, at 75   Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last five decades. For this reason, comrades, friends, associates, and students, will organize a conference on the theme: “Progressive Politics as the Answer to the National Question: Problems and Prospects,” to celebrate this revolutionary icon, Marxist, mathematici...

ON THE GO CDC: Fully vaccinated Americans can resume activities without wearing masks Americans who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can now resume activities that they did prior to the pandemic, without wearing a face mask.Advertisement According to the latest recommendation by... Two killed as security operatives clash with gunmen in Imo Two unknown gunmen have been killed, following a joint operation carried out by officers of the army, air Force, and police in I...

Forty-five years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age, I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and Ile-Ife in present-day Osun State. There we joined others, similarly inspired like us, about ten in number, male and female, excluding two kids whom we took turns to “baby-sit” in order to free the mother to participate fully in revolutionary duties. We assembled to inaugurate an underground Marxist revolutionary vang...

Looking Back: Forty-five Years Ago By Edwin Madunagu Forty-five years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age, I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and Ile-Ife in present-day Osun State. There we joined others, similarly inspired like us, about ten in number, male and female, excluding two kids whom we took turns to “baby-sit” in order to free the mother to participate fully in revolutionary duties. by Edwin Maduna...

Looking back: Forty-five years ago By Edwin Madunagu Listen to article Forty-five years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade of the same age, I left for a rural community somewhere between Gbongan and Ile-Ife in present-day Osun State. There we joined others, similarly inspired like us, about ten in number, male and female, excluding two kids whom we took turns to “baby-sit” in order to free the mother to participate fully in revolutionary dut...

Looking Back: Forty-Five Years Ago, By Edwin Madunagu   The Extraordinary Expedition had profound effects on all the participants. ADVERTISEMENT Personally, the effects of that Ode-Omu Extraordinary Expedition were completely transforming. I emerged from the commune a professional revolutionary: Where to be a professional revolutionary was not conceived mechanically, for instance, in the way one is a professional teacher or a professional soldier, that is, in terms of training and occupation....