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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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By Edwin Madunagu This is a revised and updated version of the tribute I paid the subject five years ago,

This is a revised and updated version of the tribute I paid the subject five years ago, on March 21, 2017, when she became 70 years old.

When red walls come tumbling down Why “take back control” was on people’s minds long before Dominic Cummings. I once heard a clergyman preach against walls. Halfway through, he got the kids to build a wall of polystyrene bricks right across his nave and then to climb up and look over to see (lo, on a sudden!) that we on our side were exactly the same as them on their side. He did this, I may say, standing in front of the heaviest, the reddest, thickest, medieval-est sandstone walls you�...