It is often said that it is not the number of years that a human person spends on this earth that matters, but how those years have been spent. However, such philosophising seems meaningless when a people lose the likes of Dr Tajudeen....

Dr Tajudeen have been at the forefront of selflessly furthering the humanity of humankind, especially in a continent where being selfless is seen as a most daunting enterprise by Africa's distracters and as exemplified by many of our contemporary political leaders in Africa....

Although, like many of his admirers, I have never met Dr Tajudeen in person, however, we have met many-many times by and through his articles and work which have been significant sources of information and fundamental motivation for a long time. 

This is precisely because the knowledgeable and untiring Dr Tajudeen was one of the greatest commanders of the current global revolution; i.e., the information revolution; and the revolutionising of knowledge.

Being conscious of the ordering in internal co-text and intertexual relationships, nonetheless, it is indeed not only difficult, but almost inconceivable for me to write about Dr Tajudeen in historical terms so soon!!!

However, I must assert that I have always looked forward to Dr Tajudeen’s original and ground-breaking perspicacity in his weekly “Pan-African Postcard” in Pambazuka News. In short, his instructive perspectives have been and will continue to be of profound inspiration in....

That, with such selfless giants of liberation and of human thought, such as Dr Tajudeen, tirelessly organising and working on the African continent, the Pan-African dream can be transformed into a reality within our lifetime;

That, after many years of bad governance, a new generation of innovative African leadership, which will ultimately re-construct the economic wellbeing and political dignity of the African person is being constructed;

That, Dr Tajudeen’s astuteness and expertise in contributing to many major fora on the African continent to further rekindle Pan-Africanism, is an affirmation:

That, Africa still has sons and daughters who are ready to re-organise, re-write African history and re-constitute the African reality as was envisaged by the fore-runners of Pan-Africanism (on the continent) such as Patrice Lumumba  - despite the reining of the neo-colonial gun-butts and other instruments of torture and dehumanisation which were unleashed on Lumumba and his colleagues, before ultimately been murdered under the Big Tree in Katantga Province;

That, the selfish application of knowledge and skills and the indefatigable spirit to organise for political and economic emancipation, as has been shown by Dr Tajudeen, is the hallmark of the true transformation of the African continent from being the leader of many negative human development indicators, to being the champion of the upholding and safeguarding of the humanity of the human person.

Dr Tajudeen is indeed a most illustrious Giant of African Liberation. Like other such Giants, his glowing sojourn and unflinching cutting-edge-selflessness on this earth to learn and to share and to inspire, teaches us that knowledge is the property of humankind, and organisation is the foundation of political and economic development.

Consequently, let us “not agonise” (to borrow from Dr Tajudeen's e-mail signature) about Africa, but let us “organise” for and about Africa in order to transform our realities so that we will be the commanders and guardians of the destiny of Africa.