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Yinka Odumakin & Innocent Chukwuma: Indelible footprints of two revolutionary fighters On By Lanre Arogundade The demise of Yinka and Innocent within twenty four hours of each other last weekend was a double blow for Nigeria’s radical movement. The more the reality of their exit registers, the more the pains and pangs torment. If the passage of Gani Fawehinmi, Alao Aka-Bashorun, Arthur Nwankwo, etc, at advanced age caused considerable grief, that of Yinka and Innocent cannot but be evocative...

By Lanre Arogundade The demise of Yinka and Innocent within twenty four hours of each other last weekend was a double blow for Nigeria’s radical movement. The more the reality of their exit registers, the more the pains and pangs torment. If the passage of Gani Fawehinmi, Alao Aka-Bashorun, Arthur Nwankwo, etc, at advanced age caused considerable grief, that of Yinka and Innocent cannot but be evocative of the kind of deeper grief that greeted the exit of Chris Abashi, Chima Ubani, Bamidele A...

OBITUARY: Yinka Odumakin: A fighter falls in his prime Yinka Odumakin died at the age of 56 but left behind a legacy of active public engagements 7 min read Leaving behind aged parents and a young family made the sting of Yinka Odumakin’s death even more painful for his loved ones, associates and admirers. The heart-rending moment the news was broken to his centenarian father was Not even the scriptural sermon and proverbs employed by a pastor in breaking the sad news could c...