Friday 29 November 2013

107th birthday of Akanu Ibiam

(Born 29 November 1906, Unwana, Igboland)
Affable medical doctor, theologian, and principled statesperson who works for 30 years in the Church of Scotland/Presbyterian Church rural medical programme in central Igboland and west of the Ibibio country and who, in 1967, returns to Queen Elizabeth II of England the three insignias of knighthood (OBE, KBE, KCMG) conferred on him by both her and her father (King George VI) in protest to the central role being played by Britain in the perpetration of the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, when Nigeria murders 3.1 million Igbo people, one-quarter of this nation’s population, between 29 May 1966 and 12 January 1970

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1 comment:

  1. We will always remember the role Akanu Ibiam play beloved father of Biafra Nation by denying the rudeness of British Gov't on Biafra soil you rise as man and oppose the enemy of mankind and nature.....we will thank the almighty God for your role.

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