Tribute

Tribute

When time fails to erase memories of Ahmed

Ahmed Baba! Wednesday April 6th, 2016 made it exactly one year since you left this world. I know you are gone forever, but honestly speaking, the real

I Knew Rufa’i Ibrahim

It is with a heavy heart that I write a tribute to Mallam Rufa’i Ibrahim, my good friend of forty five years. He passed away on 2nd April 2016 a

Memories of a quintessential scholar and administrator

It is exactly thirty-eight years now that Nigeria, particularly present-day Nasarawa State, lost a gem, an intellectual giant, a fountainhead that ill

MD Yusufu: Remembering a moving archive one year after

The Dantakum Cemetery in Katsina city got its name from a revered saint whose name was Muhammad Ibn Ahmad At-Tazakhti popularly called Dantakum. It wa

Forty days without adorable brother

Next Tuesday will be 40th day since I lost my brother, Mallam Mustapha Hashim. It wouldn’t just be 40 days. It’s been days of melancholy a