Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (6 January 1961 – 25 May 2009) was the general secretary of the

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, director of

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, the Deputy Director of United Nations Millennium Campaign 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 headq ...

, Nigeria in January, and died in a road accident on 25 May 2009 in

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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. Tributes to a fallen giant
''Pambazuka News'' Received an undergraduate degree in

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from a Bayero university, a Rhodes

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at Oxford and PhD from the Buffalo University.

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Abdul-Raheem, Tajudeen Nigerian pan-Africanists Anti-poverty advocates Road incident deaths in Kenya 1961 births 2009 deaths Nigerian human rights activists