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Connie Jean Ama Abeni Aboagye Aremu is Ghanaian by birth. She went to England to study for her A Levels and then read law in 1964. She met Dr. Latif Oladepo Aremu of blessed memory in London, fell in love and got married to him in August 1969. She has been living in Nigeria since 1975 and considers her husband's home town of Iwo, Osun State, as her own home town, where she attends the Church at St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Onilete, every Sunday after Holy Communion Service in Ibadan. She has previously published three books, viz: The Criminal Responsibility to Homicide and Supernatural Beliefs, A Rhapsody of Essays on Nigerian Law and A Portia Comes to Judgement. She has three surviving children. One of her children passed on in 1994 and is missed everyday..

This Festschrift celebrates the life of the late Nigerian political scientist, Oyeleye Oyediran, a highly-respected scholar, who skilfully combined theory with praxis in the quest for Nigerian democracy. The essays in this volume are written by his former students, colleagues and associates, including foremost thinkers and analysts, reflecting on his contributions to scholarship, the theory, histories, dynamics, institutions, processes and trends in politics, democracy, development and peace in Nigeria and Africa. These contributions address diverse themes, case studies and trends, ranging from the struggles for democracy and freedom, to the travails of federalism, the quest for accountability and inclusive governance and development, and analyses of regional and African frameworks and mechanisms for peace and security in a rapidly changing continental and global context. The essays in this volume eloquently bear testimony to the enduring nature of the issues that Oyediran's scholarship engaged with, but also go beyond these to succinctly capture the emerging challenges and prospects for democracy and peace in Africa.

Woman in twentieth century colonial Africa experienced a loss of power in their social-economic status. The Women Went Radical provides a narrative of radical expressions extracted from the numerous petitions written to advance and advocate the cause of Yoruba women through individual and collective action. This analyses the impact and implication of petition writing on the administration of traditional and modern governments in colonial Yorubaland. The political context accurately projects the roles of women in influencing, resisting, negotiating and counteracting policies within the political system. The research argues that petition writing is a form of politics and radicalism that is not limited to national issues but also to their manifestation from the actions of the citizens-that is 'politics from the grassroots'.