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Tribute To An Exemplary Comrade And Leader By Denja Yaqub


Tribute To An Exemplary Comrade And Leader By Denja Yaqub
For us, younger people, we still learn from the humility and strong commitment of a comrade who have been deeply involved and still courageously and undauntingly leading us in the struggle, even at 80 when so many others had faltered.
Professor Omotoye Olorode remain one of the heroes of my generation and even those before and after mine. He stands tall in all our struggles.
by Denja Yaqub
May 02, 2021
During the years when defiant academics held sway in tertiary schools in Nigeria, there were very many ‘’hot heads’’ even a child in secondary school destined for critical learning had already been used to reading about in newspapers and possibly watched on television. There were very few newspapers and television stations then, most of them state owned. ....

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OLORODE: INTELLECTUAL AND A REVOLUTIONARY EXTRAORDINAIRE


Omolade Adunbi pays tribute to Toye Olorode, scholar and a radical with a cause
“We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others a proper respect for his work and properly respecting the work of others. Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories…”
― Amilcar Cabral, Revolution in Guinea: African People’s Struggle
In one of his speeches to comrades during the struggle for the liberation of Guinea Bissau from the clutches of Portuguese colonial exploitation, Amical Cabral admonished comrades and revolutionaries to take their responsibilities seriously, refrain from telling lies, respect all comrades regardless of their age, admit mistakes when one is made and desist from claiming easy victories. All of these characteristics epit ....

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