Biafra’s Ezinne Uko wins US$100,000 first prize at the Econet GoGettaz’s all-Africa entrepreneurship contest just concluded in Nairobi, Kenya – neither genocidist Nigeria nor indeed any other state can stop the march of Biafra freedom or the versatile creativity of its people

(Ezinne Uko: ... okee nwanyi mmadu)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ACCORDING to reports on this brilliant win (Business Insider, Friday 26 January 2018), Ezinne Uko’s success is on building an app which provides “easy inventory for sales, business performance analysis as well as customer and business solutions”. Co-1st position winner Peter Wachira of Kenya’s  own app focuses on a “ceramic water filter that helps in the fight against water-borne disease in Kenya”.

 (Thelonious Monk Quintet, “Brilliant corners” – personnel: Monk, piano; Ernie Henry, alto saxophone; Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Riverside studio, New York, US, 15 October 1956)

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