Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
What moral
rectitude?
THE AFRICAN WORLD (especially in continental Africa, Europe and the regions of the Americas) that unstoppably denounces racism against African peoples in all its
forms across the globe (rightly so), day in, day out, now stands to forfeit any
moral rectitude if it continues its morbid silence over the sheer savagery of
Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria genocide against Igbo people in Biafra:
Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria has murdered more Africans in Biafra, southwestcentral Africa, since 1945 than the total number of Africans murdered in Africa since 1900 by all of Europe’s conqueror-powers in Africa: Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain – including the number of Africans the Germans murdered in the genocide of the Herero, Nama and Berg Damara peoples of southwest Africa (1904-1907). Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria now rates a not-too-distant second to Belgian King Leopold II’s notorious position as Lead Génocidaire of African Peoples Since the 19th Century in the Leopold II/Belgian state’s genocide against Africans in the central regions of the Congo River basin (1878-1908). What is raging in Biafra, presently, is a campaign by indolent and immanently anti-African fascist operatives to destroy Igbo people, one of the world’s most peaceful, resourceful and resilient peoples. The crescendo of African World voices must be overwhelming in denouncing this bestiality. Now is the time.
(Mal Waldron Quartet, “Hymn from the inferno” [personnel: Waldron, piano; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Cecil McBee, bass; Dannie Richmond, drums; recorded: Vanguard Studios, New York, US, 15 August 1981])
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