One of Nigeria’s Marxists and radical feminists, Prof. Bene Edwin Madunagu, is dead. According to the information from her family, she died on Tuesday sending shock waves to the University of Calabar community, family and friends.
 
Speaking to The Guardian at her residence at no. 9 Edem Edu Close, in Anantigha, Calabar South Local Council of Cross River State, her husband, Dr Ewin Madunagu, said that the erudite scholar and feminist was “diagnosed of dementia (memory loss), leading to other complications. He added that she died at about noon on Tuesday despite all medical interventions.    
 
Recounting her last days and moments, Dr Madunagu, a Marxist who had introduced Bene to the socialist revolutionary movement and Marxism far back in 1975 at the University of Lagos, said: “Unfortunately, ill-health was waiting for her at retirement.
 
“Even in ill health, Bene has challenged herself on several occasions to remember several events, participate in the reorganisation and authenticate several processes that made possible the transfer of ‘Our Combined Archives and Libraries’ to the Nigerian left. She also continued to inspire the leftists and Leftist-Feminist Movements….” 
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