This is a man who has influenced and impacted on me so positively in many aspects. I learned with shock of Dr Elmon Tafa’s passing on in the early hours of Monday morning this week from a friend who called me to confirm whether it is true that a man we fondly referred to as Comrade Moore is indeed no more.
It was much of a shock to me as I had previously visited him in hospital and I was quite positive that Comrade Moore will fully recover from his sickness. In Comrade Moore I have lost an intellectual godfather who laid in me the intellectual foundation that is now guiding me on how to write both academic and opinion pieces in my column. I first meet Comrade Moore when I was still a first year student at Tonota College of Education in 1994. He was offering some courses under the department of Social Studies. There is however some courses that really drew me closer to this intellectual giant because whenever he offered these courses he applied a high level of intellectual sophistication that to me was unmatched in that department.
