Sunday 1 October 2017

Vanguard on the move


Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

BEGINNING in the early 1930s to October 1960, the Igbo nation played the vanguard role in the campaign for restoration-of-independence to terminate 100 years of the British conquest and occupation of the multiplicity of states and peoples of southwestcentral Africa region which the conqueror contemptuously tagged “Nigeria”. Britain responded with the genocide of the Igbo and employed its Hausa-Fulani/islamist clients on the ground, inveterately anti-African who hitherto opposed the restoration-of-independence drive, to enforce this mass murder. The genocidists slaughtered 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population during the course of 44 months, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970. Tens of thousands additional Igbo have been murdered subsequently. 

THE Igbo have not only survived the genocide but are now in the vanguard to construct Biafra, an African peoples-centred state, that at once effectuates African control of its destiny not seen for centuries and the collapse of the Anglo/European World anti-African “Berlin-states” dotted across Africa such as the “Nigerias”.
(John Coltrane, Ascension [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Dewey Johnson, trumpet; John Tchicai, alto saxophone; Marion Brown, alto saxophone; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; Archie Shepp, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano;  Art Davis, bass; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, NJ, US, 28 June 1965]) 
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