Monday 13 May 2019

108th birthday of Louis Mbanefo

(Born 13 May 1911, Onicha, Biafra)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Namibia

ERUDITE human rights lawyer and distinguished international jurist at the International Court of Justice, The Hague, Holland, 1962-1966, where he sets up the defining international legal protocols that ensure the 1990 restoration-of-independence for African peoples in Namibia from a century of European World conquest and occupation (Germany, Britain/European conqueror-South Africa regime), entrenched after Germany had carried out the expansive and catastrophic genocides against the Herero, Nama and Derg Damara peoples of the country, 1904-1907, the first stretch of genocides of the 20th century, a decade before the Armenian genocide executed by the Ottoman “empire”/Turkey…

Biafra

CHIEF JUSTICE of BIAFRA and ambassador extraordinary in the resistance Biafra government during the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III, in which 3.1 million Igbo or one-quarter of Igbo population are murdered by Fulani islamist jihadist-led Nigeria and the league of pan-African constituent nations therein, particularly Yoruba, Hausa, Kanuri, Nupe, Gwari, Jukun, Urhobo, Tiv, Jarawa, Edo and its suzerain state Britain under the premiership of Harold Wilson who chiefly coordinates the genocide from his Londons no. 10 Downing Street offices and residence, 3000 miles away from Biafra...

JUSTICE Mbanefo possesses that distinct scholar’s contemplative persona that has come to define the insistent resilience of the Biafra freedom movement.
(John Coltrane Quintet, “Brasilia” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 1 November 1961])

******Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018) 
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

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