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Obituaries
RSS FeedA giant has moved on …: Tribute to Archie Mafeje
Adebayo Olukoshi
2007-04-02, Issue 298
Wednesday, 28 March, 2007 will go down as a sad day among social researchers all over Africa and beyond: It was the day Professor Archie Mafeje passed away in Pretoria in what was a most quiet exit that has left the very many among us whom he touched...
The Great Iroko has Moved On
Adebayo Olukoshi
2006-12-07, Issue 281
The Great Iroko has Moved On: Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 1922 – 2006 The Council for the development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) regrets to announce the death in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 04 December, 2006, of one of Africa’s most i...
John Moru, Another World Is Still Possible!
Emman Ozoemena
2006-10-26, Issue 275
On the first anniversary of the late John Moru who lost his life in the Bellview plane crash on October 22, 2005 at Lisa, Ogun State, Emman Ozoemena writes that Moru, a social activist and an anti-poverty campaigner, was the Secretary of the Steering Committee of the Nigerian Social Forum and would have been happy to participate in the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
Wanjiru Kihoro: Sister, Comrade, Friend
Wangui wa Goro
2006-10-19, Issue 274
It is hard to write about Wanjiru in the yesterday. Her indefatigable, vibrant energy, her love of freedom, justice and equality defy that. I met Wanjiru in those grim Nyayo years and did not realise what a huge impact she was going to have not o...
Wanjiru Kihoro: an activist, feminist, patriot, visionary, leader, friend
2006-10-19, Issue 274
Dr.Wanjiru Kihoro’s brave battle from the coma which she has been fighting since January, 24 2003 came to an end at 10pm on Thursday October 12 at Kenyatta National Hospital. Dr. Kihoro went into a coma following the Busia plane crash in which thre...
Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage
Firoze Manji
2006-07-12, Issue 263
Pambazuka News is deeply saddened to learn of the untimely death of Chachage S.L. Chachage. Africa has lost a comrade and fighter for freedom, someone who has not only contributed to the struggle for justice and emancipation, but has also been a majo...
Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage Lives On in Our Daily Struggles
Adebayo Olukoshi
2006-07-13, Issue 263
The news of the sudden death on Sunday of our esteemed colleague and comrade-in-arms, Professor Chachage Seithy Loth Chachage came to us in the CODESRIA Secretariat as a rude shock that will take us a while to come to terms with. During the last two ...
Buriani Kamaradi
Farewell, Comrade Chachage
Issa G Shivji
2006-07-13, Issue 263
Ndugu yangu Rafiki yangu Kamaradi Chachage: Nani kasema umetuacha? Eti umefariki! Kwani mwili ndiyo maisha? Maisha ni fikra. Maisha ni vitendo. Maisha ni ubinadamu. Fikra zako, Vitendo vyako, Ubinadamu wako, Utadumu. Le...
The meek shall also inherit the mineral rights!
For CSL Chachage
Michael Neocosmos
2006-07-13, Issue 263
I lost a brother today, a friend, ndugu, comrade, a human being. I always thought I would see him again... Sadness overwhelms me. He walked through life his head held high speaking up against injustice and laughing at the stupidity of o...
Global: WHO chief dies
2006-05-25, Issue 256
Dr. Lee Jong Wook, the head of the World Health Organization whose gamble to greatly expand AIDS treatment to the poor around the world helped give new life to hundreds of thousands of people, died suddenly Monday, two days after emergency surgery to...
Bigger Than Fear: Remembering Ellen Kuzwayo
Shailja Patel
2006-05-17, Issue 255
Ellen Kuzwayo, South African activist, writer, feminist, icon, died 3 weeks ago. Obituaries and tributes to her ran in every major media outlet on the African continent, not to mention the New York Times, Washington Post and Britain’s Guardian newspaper. So what can I possibly add to the chorus?...
John La Rose (1927-2006)
Jenny Bourne
2006-03-08, Issue 245
1 March 2006 - A stalwart of Black struggle in Britain, John La Rose, has died. As a writer, publisher and political organiser, his contribution to the development of Black cultural expression in the UK cannot be rivalled. It is with great sadness that the staff of the Institute of Race Relations heard the news of John's death on 28 February from a heart attack. As a member of IRR's Council, and its Chairman in the early 1970s, he helped to guide the organisation during a particularly turbulent time in its history; its transformation from an establishment body into a radical think-tank. ...
The Eagle has flown away: A tribute to Dr Bekololari Ransome-Kuti
(2 August 1940-10 February 2006)
Sonny Onyegbula
2006-03-02, Issue 244
It was with sadness that I learnt of the death of Dr Bekololari Ransome-Kuti. Beko died at the time in our life as a nation that we needed him more that ever before. His contributions to the enthronement of democracy, respect for the rule of law and human rights were monumental. He was both a leader and a follower. His passion for fairness, justice and due process were legendary. His love for the ordinary Nigeria was unimaginable. No wonder his doors at his Imariam close residence in Lagos were open to all and sundry. His loss is a national loss and a personal one for me and for most of us....
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