Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
BIAFRANS have an historic opportunity to embark on the construction of a new
civilisation where human life, African
life, fundamentally, is sacrosanct. This salient feature cannot
be overstressed.
Mission
For Igbo people, Nigeria has for long been a
haematophagous quagmire in their history, beginning in the 1945 Igbo pogrom in Jos (northcentral region) carried out by the Fulani islamist/jihadists, duly overseen by the British conqueror-occupying
regime. A “next time” Igbo pogrom was executed in Kano (north
region), in 1953, by the same Fulani islamist/jihadists and again overseen
by the British occupation – “dress rehearsals” for the Igbo
genocide which the dual-genocidists and the
expanded league of pan-African perpetrators (particularly, Yoruba,
Kanuri, Edo, Tiv, Gwari, Nupe, Jukun) would embark upon on 29 May 1966,
slaughtering 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population in the
subsequent 44 months of sheer savagery, phases I-III of the genocide. Phase-IV
of the genocide has continued since, with the murder of additional tens of
thousands Igbo people.
Mission
THE Biafra freedom mission is therefore not to
begin to construct a state that is merely post-genocide or post
post-conquest (post post-“colonial”) state of Africa; in other
words, cancelling out here and there, in some mechanical venture, that
which was Nigeria, “Berlin-state” Africa’s most notoriously
anti-human.
Instead, Biafra is a realisation,
a profound reclamation of that which makes us all human and part of
humanity. Biafra is a beacon of the tenacity of the spirit of
human overcoming of the most desperate, unimaginable brutish forces.
THE restoration-of-independence of Biafra at once signals to the rest
of the constituent peoples and nations enveloped in the
European-created “Berlin-states” of death, immiseration, desolation
and hopelessness that freedom and transformation, right
there in Africa, are achievable goals – that African peoples can build, reconstruct, embark on all possibilities of
working for themselves and appropriating the fruits of their
labour from their land and on their own terms...
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Attaining” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Impulse!, New York, US, 26 August 1965])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is author of the recently published The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019)
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_25.html)
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
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