Author: Oluwide, Baba
Title: On the Current Divergencies
Description: [Yaba, Nigeria], Spark Publications, 1968. orig.wrappers. 19x12cm, 37 pp.. Some inked marginal marks and notes. Good. ¶ A Nigerian Maoist pamphlet. Contents: On the Current Divergencies as regards Peaceful Co-existence; The Great Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution; Author former education secretary of the disbanded Nigerian Labour Party, Chairman of the Young Toilers Brigade. ["...author of innumerable essays and booklets of a socioliogical novel and other unpublished and unpublishable 'works'. To advance revolutionary career and to keep from starving has been kindergarten teacher, kitchen porter and paratrooper, grammar school headmaster, copy writer, milk salesman and oil executive (for precisely 30½ days), taxi driver, law clerk and economic consultant. Many hairs breath brush with the Law, having been arrested on countable occasions, threatened with jail on uncountable ones, and confined to the most despicable cells meeting the most colourful criminals on both sides of the Sahara...." - page 37].

Keywords: African Political History, Nigeria, Maoism, Communist, Communism, Maoist, Radical, West Africa, Politics