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Tuesday, 17 May 2016
65th birthday of Emma Okala
(Born 17 May 1951, Onicha, Biafra)
Towering goalkeeper of the indomitable Enuugwu Rangers International, the football club, during the 1970s-1980s, which, arguably, most symbolises the dogged and resilient spirit of Igbo people in the wake of the cataclysmic genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, when Nigeria and principal ally Britain murder 3.1 million Igbo or one-quarter of this nation’s population
(Cecil Taylor,
“Pontos cantados” [personnel: Taylor, piano; recorded: One night with Blue
Note: The historic all-star reunion concert, Town Hall, New York, US, 22 February
1985])
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