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My “Unpopular” Propositions

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 15, 2021 159 0

By Edwin Madunagu    Several times in the last ten years, I have compelled myself to discontinue public exploration, and application to Nigeria, of the concepts of “power bloc” and “popular-democratic restructuring”. These are concepts in which another concept – “the national question” or “ethnic nationality question” – plays an important, though neither dominant nor […]Continue Reading

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Further notes to the Nigerian Left

By Ele Ifah Sunday March 2, 2021 156 0

By Edwin Madunagu  The Nigerian Left has largely neglected, if not deliberately avoided a renewed ideological struggle that has become a strong factor in both the general turbulence and violence enveloping the whole country and the associated power struggle within the ruling class. The neglected or badly engaged ideological struggle may simply be described as […]Continue Reading

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Study Notes on Nigeria’s Youth Revolt

By Ele Ifah Sunday November 7, 2020 146 0

By Edwin Madunagu  What actually happened in Nigeria, from October 8, 2020 to the last week of that month? Did we see a protest, a revolt, an uprising, a rebellion, a nihilist – anarchist self-expression, an insurrection or a revolution? But why have I decided to put “revolution” last? Is it because it is the […]Continue Reading

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Study Notes on “Revolution” and “National Unity”

By Ele Ifah Sunday September 28, 2020 150 0

By Edwin Madunagu The importance and urgency of this subject to the Nigerian Left, at this time, demand that I begin the discussion with a series of clear propositions. And that is what I intend to do here. None of the propositions, in its essence, will be new to the movement or in the movement. […]Continue Reading

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In praise of Marxism

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 26, 2020 149 0

By Edwin Madunagu One of the earliest objections we encountered from our opponents when we entered the organized Marxist political activism in the early post-Civil War years was the one built around the thesis that Marxism, our ideology, was alien to Africa and to Nigeria in particular. We soon realized that this objection was not […]Continue Reading