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Obituaries

Dani Wadada Nabudere: A great son of Africa

1932-2011

Yash Tandon

2011-11-10, Issue 557

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Dani Nabudere has passed on, and with him has passed a piece of Uganda, a piece of the continent, a part of humanity, writes Yash Tandon.

Dani Wadada Nabudere has passed on. With him has passed a piece of Uganda, a piece of the continent, a part of humanity.

This is not the time to write an assessment of this great son of Africa. That would be a daunting task for anybody who would undertake it. Dani accepted life in its totality and intensity. Those who shared a part of that life, to drink from the same fountain, to walk the same walk, to share moments of joy, pain, intellectual challenges and exhilaration, even moments of ecstasy, were privileged. I am one of them.

He had a great sense of irony about himself and about history, and sharp wit, and a strong hand shake.

To Dani we owe a lot – his vision, his inspiration, the courage to speak truth to power. He was a prophet.

Dani’s death diminishes Uganda, East Africa, Africa and all those who fight for freedom, equity and justice.

In death Dani affirms life here and now and hereafter.

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* Yash Tandon is a writer on development theory and practice, chairman of SEATINI and senior adviser to the South Centre.
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Africa has lost one of its best sons; a great thinker, a passionate pan-Africanist and revolutionary thinker. Dan Nabudere was an unwavering revolutionary thinker, a fighter of social justice and an ideological grave-digger of oppressors and exploiters.

Nabudere was a professional revolutionary who venutred on giant theoretical works on issues that afflict the concintnet as well as the world. He was among the very few who anaysed the inevitability of the global cycical crisis of capitalism that has been raging since 2008.

Indeed, Dan Nbudere will be missed by the poor just like other revolutionary thinkers were. Africa will miss him, Uganda will miss him and the world will miss him. We should not mourn Dan just by shedding tears, but by conitnuing the great work he has begun. Many revolutionaries may still pass away before oppression and exploitation finally does, but it will finally once and for all.

Melakou Tegegn, Development Pinnacle

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