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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 established with some other radicals at this period was called the Anti-Poverty Movement of Nigeria, APMON. T...
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, mathematician, journalist and public intellectual. This tribute is a reflection on what Edwin Madunagu, popular...