Dear All:
Yesterday (Monday, January 6, 2014) marked the 53rd birthday of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, the Nigeria-born, Pan-African scholar and Rhodes Scholar, who was born in 1961 on that day in Funtua, Nigeria. Brother Taju, as he was affectionately called by many of us who knew him well, served as the General Secretary of the Pan-African Movement, Director of Justice Africa, the Deputy Director of United Nations Millennium Campaign for Africa, as well as a writer for numerous newspapers and journals across Africa.
As a Pan-Africanist, it was sad but not surprising that the "Funtua Eagle" (Brother Taju) met his untimely death in Nairobi, Kenya on May 25, 2009 in an auto accident. Initially educated at Bayero University in Nigeria, he matriculated to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, from where he earned his doctoral (D. Phil) degree.
*Attached is former WEST AFRICA MAGAZINE Editor Kaye Whiteman's excellent obituary of Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, as it appeared in THE GUARDIAN newspaper of U.K., one of several that appeared in major newspapers throughout the world.
A.B. Assensoh, Eugene, Oregon.