Nigeria, Feb. 26 -- Clara Margarita Pulido Escandell is a 61-year old Cuban who breathes Africa. When I first met her and she discovered I had a trade union background, she enquired about the African labour leader, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu, the founding President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC). Sunmonu had spoken at the university in Legon, Accra, Ghana when she was a Master Degree student. His Pan Africanist exhortations continues to ring in her head over three decades later.
Fidel Castro as Cuban leader believed in children and youths and was confident that once the country took good care of them, the Cuban Revolution could never be defeated. Pulido was one of those Cuban youths who came close to Fidel. Her choice of education in Afri...