Nigeria: Adieu Yusuf Bala Usman

27 September 2005
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His death three days ago on Saturday, September 24 was a great shock and an irreplaceable loss to a nation in search of heroes and good role models who will call a spade, a spade.

It was also a great loss to intellectualism and scholarship in a nation polluted by quarks and intellectual fraudsters. His death is also a fatal blow to the Marxian tradition of inquiry and analysis in a nation devastated and hijacked by imperial agents of Washington and London. This is our assessment of the meaning of the death of Dr Yusuf Bala Usman, the radical History teacher of the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria who spent over thirty years of his life researching and teaching students to ask critical questions and holistically interpret history and events from all perspectives.

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