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Aburi Ghosts, Asaba Secessionists and Waffles In High Places, By Festus Adedayo ADVERTISEMENT When you listen to Nigeria’s Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s skewed submission on Southern governors’ meeting in Asaba, Delta State last week, you will realise that people in high places too are not immune from marketplace waffles. Miniature logic can proceed from the minds of huge, prarchute-like babanriga wearers after all. More importantly, from the tragic Lawan ill-logics, the much talked about January, 1967 Aburi Accord will present to you as the quintessential Julius Caesar’s ghost prom...

Omar Blondin Diop depicted among other African and African American activists in a mural painted on June 15, 2020 by the Senegalese graffiti collective Radikal Bomb Shot in Dakar [Courtesy of RBS] On May 11, 1973, Senegalese revolutionary activist Omar Blondin Diop was declared dead in a prison on Gorée Island, off the coast of the Senegalese capital, Dakar. His life and tragic death have remained a potent symbol of the revolutionary struggle in Senegal. Today, his image is featuring prominently in anti-government and anti-neocolonialism protests. On March 2, 2021, just hours before Senegale...

Senegalese revolutionary icon Omar Blondin Diop deserves justice | Senegal On May 11, 1973, Senegalese revolutionary activist Omar Blondin Diop was pronounced dead in a prison on Gorée Island off the coast of the Senegalese capital Dakar. His tragic life and death have continued to be a powerful symbol of Senegal’s revolutionary struggle. Today, his image appears prominently in protests against the government and against neocolonialism. On March 2, 2021, just hours before the arrest of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, the Front Against the People’s Imperialist Revolution and t...

A Revolution Without Celebration Listen to article It came at the back of the appointment of a Special Prosecutor to fight corruption in our kingdom. While this is the second appointment to that office, it is the first in the series of revolutions that never witnessed any celebration in our kingdom. In 1966, while Kwame Nkrumah-the first president of our kingdom, was on a peace mission to Hanoi, news got to him that there was wild jubilation of people back home. They were celebrating the revolution. Earlier on in 1957, they have had a countrywide celebration of the revolution won from the c...