(Born 4 November 1933, Zungeru, Nigeria)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Historian and general, arguably the most outstanding Igbo leader in history – at just 32, becomes head of the Biafran resistance during phases I-III of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, this worst catastrophe in Igbo history, when 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population are murdered by the Fulani islamists/jihadists-led Nigeria and its suzerain state Britain under the Harold Wilson premiership in the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa; demonstrates, throughout these devastating 44 months of the génocidaires’ comprehensive land, aerial and naval blockade and bombardment and slaughtering of Igbo people (unprecedented in African history), unrelenting purpose, intelligence, poise, dedication, tenacity, resilience; phase-IV of the Igbo genocide has raged since 13 January 1970 and has continued presently with the génocidaires’ murders of tens of thousands of additional Igbo including the 3000 slaughtered by the fiendish Muhammandu Buhari regime and its adjunct Fulani militia and Boko Haram terrorists (both terrorists are part of the contemporary world’s five deadliest terrorist organisations) – beginning in November 2015 soon after Buhari was imposed on Nigeria as head of regime by former US President Barack Obama, first African-descent president of the United States, 233 years after the founding of the republic, and David Cameron, former British prime minister
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
Historian and general, arguably the most outstanding Igbo leader in history – at just 32, becomes head of the Biafran resistance during phases I-III of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, this worst catastrophe in Igbo history, when 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population are murdered by the Fulani islamists/jihadists-led Nigeria and its suzerain state Britain under the Harold Wilson premiership in the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa; demonstrates, throughout these devastating 44 months of the génocidaires’ comprehensive land, aerial and naval blockade and bombardment and slaughtering of Igbo people (unprecedented in African history), unrelenting purpose, intelligence, poise, dedication, tenacity, resilience; phase-IV of the Igbo genocide has raged since 13 January 1970 and has continued presently with the génocidaires’ murders of tens of thousands of additional Igbo including the 3000 slaughtered by the fiendish Muhammandu Buhari regime and its adjunct Fulani militia and Boko Haram terrorists (both terrorists are part of the contemporary world’s five deadliest terrorist organisations) – beginning in November 2015 soon after Buhari was imposed on Nigeria as head of regime by former US President Barack Obama, first African-descent president of the United States, 233 years after the founding of the republic, and David Cameron, former British prime minister
(John Coltrane Duo, “Leo” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bells; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Geldar Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 22 February 1967)
*****Herbert
Ekwe-Ekwe is the author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of the recently
published Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa
(2018)
(https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-post_18.html)
(https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2018/10/blog-post_18.html)
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