Looking back: Forty-five years ago
Forty-five years ago, as I turned 30, I left Lagos for Ibadan. From Ibadan, together with a comrade...
Engagement with the Nigerian Left
About three years ago, a young comrade of mine who was then a student of History and International...
Clarifications and re-statements
My last article, “Further notes to the Nigerian Left” (late February 2021), was a deliberately condensed message. It...
Facing 2021: Notes to the Nigerian Left
The last paragraph of my last published article for the year 2020, titled “Study notes on state and...
Study Notes on “Revolution” and “National Unity”
The importance and urgency of this subject to the Nigerian Left, at this time, demand that I begin...
Reorganising Nigeria’s Left Politics
There is a contradiction between an enduring desire of the Nigerian Left (the aggregate of Nigerian Marxists, socialists,...
In praise of Marxism
One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism...
For Comrade James Crentsil
When my mobile telephone rang around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, April 15, 2020, I knew, before checking it,...
Re-introducing “The Lugano Report”
Sometime in 1999, as both the 20th century and the second millennium were drawing to a close, the...
Revisiting a national political debate
One of the first definitive steps taken by General Ibrahim Babangida on displacing General Muhammadu Buhari in a...
