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Since May 21, the Michigan State University landmark has been defaced six to seven times with the same message, “Boycott your DEI Training.”

The Daily Vox The liberation struggle is saturated with images of men who fought against the apartheid state for our political freedom, to the exclusion of women. Besides the late – and great – Mam’ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, here are five other women that fought against patriarchy and racism to give us our political freedom. SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA MOOSA commemorate these brave women this Freedom Day. Albertina Sisulu Albertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu was a nurse by profession. Through her political activism, she became one of the most important leaders of the anti-apartheid...

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 chi...

3 min read Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has narrated how late Yinka Odumakin, the ex-spokesperson of Afenifere, was expelled from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). Mr Odumakin died on Saturday at the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital where he was being managed for respiratory issues due to complications from COVID-19. President Muhammadu Buhari and other dignitaries in the country had described Mr Odumakin as a man of conviction and a strong defender of human rights. PREMIUM TIMES reported that he was a core activist who started his 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 cushion the blow on Pa Ezekiel Odumakin, a church elder at the Christ Apostolic Church, Waasinmi, in ...