Nigeria, May 15 -- 15 May marks the 80th birthday of one of Nigeria's most enduring revolutionary intellectuals - Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu: mathematician, journalist, Marxist theorist, archivist, teacher, agitator, and organiser.

For more than five decades, Edwin Madunagu has stood firmly on the side of workers, students, women, peasants, and the oppressed. While governments changed, dictators rose and fell, and many abandoned radical politics, he remained unwavering in his belief that another Nigeria, a humane and egalitarian society, is possible.

His is the story of a man who turned ideas into struggle, books into weapons, and memory into resistance.

Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu was born on 15 May, 1946, in a Nigeria still under British ...