Nigeria, Jan. 15 -- The burial of Comrade Bene Madunagu on Friday in Calabar will be a fitting farewell to a socialist revolutionary, scholar, feminist and patriot, whose life and times could be summed up as the struggle for human progress.

Tomorrow, family members, comrades, friends, colleagues and well wishers are expected to assemble to celebrate her in a potpourri of funeral activities, including a feminist forum, lecture, tributes, cultural performances and renditions by mentees.

She was 77.

Comrade Bene, who died on 26 November last year, retired from the University of Calabar (UniCal) as a professor of Botany, after many years of teaching and influencing generations of students and mentees. Before then, she was an assistant lect...