Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (6 January 1961 – 25 May 2009) was the general secretary of the
Pan-African Movement, director of
Justice Africa, the Deputy Director of
United Nations Millennium Campaign
The United Nations Millennium Campaign (UNMC) was a UN campaign unit that was set up in response to the Millennium Declaration signed by 189 member states. Established in October, 2002, the UNMC aimed to increase support to achieve the Millenniu ...
for Africa, as well as a writer for newspapers and journals across Africa.
He was born in
Funtua
Funtua is a Local Government Area in Katsina State, Nigeria. Its headquarter is in the town of Funtua on the A126 highway.
It is one of the premier Local Governments in Nigeria created after the Local Governments reforms in 1976. It is the headqu ...
, Nigeria in January, and died in a road accident on 25 May 2009 in
Nairobi
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, Kenya, while on his way to the airport to catch a flight to Rwanda where he was scheduled to meet with the President of Rwanda.
''Pambazuka News''
Received an undergraduate degree in political science
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from a Bayero university
The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1975, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from University College to University. It is the first university in ...
, a Rhodes scholar
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at Oxford and PhD from the Buffalo University.
References
External links
He was to Africa what Che Guevara was to South America
by Dimas Nkunda, ''The Observer'', May 27, 2009
by Nathan Byamukama, ''All Africa'', May 31, 2009
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Nigerian pan-Africanists
Anti-poverty advocates
Road incident deaths in Kenya
1961 births
2009 deaths
Nigerian human rights activists