Activist Abubakar Sokoto passes on
Activist Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed has d!ed.
Sokoto, who was the chair of the Nigerian anti-Apartheid platform – Youth Solidarity on South Africa (YUSSAN), passed on on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
He was also the former head the publications section of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) at Kuru in Jos, Plateau State.
Sokoto worked at the Department of Sociology at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
The institution announced his de@th and revealed that he has been buried.
Author Dr Yusuf Bangura, a former Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, confirmed his de@th in a tribute.
Bangura wrote, “I can’t believe that we’ve lost Comrade Abubakar Sokoto. We’ve been in touch almost every week this year via WhatsApp. He even sent me his paper on Frantz Fanon for the Fanon Conference at the University of Jos, which was held on 27-28 November, 2025. We also talked about the conference when it ended. This is really shocking.
“Sokoto’s last message to me was his reaction to my Substack blog on China’s defeat of the US in their trade war. This is what he wrote to me on Wednesday, 10 December—just two days ago.”
Bagura described Sokoto as one of his closest friends when he taught at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria in the 1980s. He said the deceased was a source of great insights on Nigeria.
He added, “We didn’t just share a similar global outlook as members of the Zaria Group that espoused a political economy for social transformation in Nigeria and Africa. Our two families bonded very well. His first wife, Amina, and my wife, Kadie, were very close. We shared many memorable moments together.”
