For me, Africa Day—celebrated annually on May 25—readily brings to mind one remarkable individual and one pivotal institution. The individual is Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a respected scholar and passionate pan-Africanist, whose life was tragically cut short on Africa Day in 2009, at just 48 years old. The institution is the UBA Group, in part because of an invitation I received from them, in 2020, to be on a panel, themed “Domestic Policies, Regional Development and a Global Agenda: SDGs and African Development at a Crossroad”, organized to com
For me, Africa Day—celebrated annually on May 25—readily brings to mind one remarkable individual and one pivotal institution. The individual is Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, a respected scholar and passionate pan-Africanist, whose life was tragically cut short on Africa Day in 2009, at just 48 years old. The institution is the UBA Group, in part because of an invitation I received from them, in 2020, to be on a panel, themed “Domestic Policies, Regional Development and a Global Agenda: SDGs and African Development at a Crossroad”, organized to com