Baba Aye's

Response to Osaze Lanre Nosaze's open letter It is quite unfortunate that not once in the 4,407 words of Osaze’s letter is there even the slightest mention of the defining issue of today i.e. the COVID19 pandemic. It shows how disconnected from changing the world his penchant for interpreting it is.* Anyway, I have neither the time nor the disposition for a long-drawn response, for the moment at least. But there are some outright distortions that need to be clarified and a few issues which I will summarily put in perspective regarding the claims and accusations made in his open letter. 1.        On “our phone discussion” and related matters -           Osaze claims that I or as he puts it, the SWL merely “wanted a CORE meeting held where the question of developing a programme for the organisation would be finalised and an expanded leadership established”. This is a half-truth.  -    ...

Dear Biola, I read yours a couple of times for several reasons. Since our first encounter at Fajuyi hall in June 1990, you have in your own way been maintained a presence in the struggle for change and do still, as far as I know, subscribe to socialist struggle and the revolutionary pathway as the road to social transformation. Your position for moving beyond internet activism (which is not unimportant, but left as the sole or major plank of intervention. ...can not but be sterile), is one I wholly subscribe to. But what disturbs my mind is always trying to start from zero, making our various struggles merely episodic rather than stringing them as beads in a rosary...tying them together and thus building not only continuity but the ethos and praxis of movement-building. Had we all on this serve not agreed to moving beyond internet activism by summoning and resolving on building a movement for social change at Rockview hotel on March 21? What happened to all that: the passion, the think...