tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80708599962801399342024-03-14T05:46:22.584-07:00Rethinking AfricaRethinking Africa is a forward looking blog dedicated to the exchange of innovative thinking on issues affecting the advancement of African peoples wherever they are. We provide rigorous and insightful analyses on the issues affecting Africans and their vision of the world.Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.comBlogger2054125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-34310621962472314862019-10-18T10:09:00.004-07:002019-10-19T02:58:57.144-07:00<h2>
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<b>Celebrating the life of Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe</b></h2>
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, husband, father, brother, an amazing intellect, one of the most original thinkers of his time, who touched the lives of so many has gone home to be with the Lord. He fought the good fight of faith – in God, in his family, in Biafra and in the rights of all people to determine their own destiny. He was a man of great integrity and honesty. It is an honour to have known and lived with Herbert. We will always cherish him. And we all shall <i><b>surely</b></i> see the restoration of independence and self determination of Biafra!<br />
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- His Loving Family<br />
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<b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: georgia; font-size: 10pt;">John Coltrane Classic Quartet.</b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia";"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> “</span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">”<i>. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">New York: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">Van Gelder studio</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">6 December 1964</span></div>
<br />Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-58933018773303359282019-10-15T09:07:00.000-07:002019-10-15T20:05:34.734-07:00POINTED REMINDER: Those skirmishes in the mind of Harold Wilson’s dreadful calculations during phases I-III of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">AT THE APOGEE of </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">phase-III of Igbo genocide, mid 1968- autumn 1969,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Harold Wilson</u>, B</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">ritish prime minister and <b>chief architect</b> of this genocide, phases I-III, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, <b>is totally unperturbed</b> as he informs </span><u>Clyde Ferguson</u>, the United States state department special coordinator for relief for <b>Biafra</b> – in response to <b>the</b> <b>very</b> British-coordinated premeditated genocide of Igbo people who had been comprehensively <b>besieged</b>, <b>starved </b>and <b>bombarded</b> by land and sea and air for 38 catastrophic months by the Anglo-Nigerian genocidists – that <i>he</i>, Harold Wilson, “would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” its client and co-genocidist state Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (Roger Morris, <i>Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy</i>, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977, p. 122.).<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Indices of Wilsonian <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">annihilative power</span></b><br /><br />JUST who is <b>Harold Wilson</b> who is so contumelious to go on record to call for and execute the genocide of Igbo people of Biafra, 3150 miles away in southwestcentral Africa, 23 years after the end of the perpetration of the horrendous <u>Jewish genocide</u> by Germany in Europe in which the latter murdered <b>6 million Jews</b>, and 20 years after the declaration of the seminal 1948 UN convention on the crime of genocide (see <o:p></o:p></span>UN “Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide”, [<a href="https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf">https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf</a>], accessed 12 October 2017)?</div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>1.</b> Harold Wilson <b>is </b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>not</b> some dictator, some leader of a loony party, a fascist party, or anything of that political brand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>2.</b> Harold Wilson is an <b>elected</b> politician, a politician in an advanced western representative democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>3.</b> Harold Wilson is <b>leader </b>of the British Labour party, one of Europe</span>’s leading social democratic parties (also incorporates democratic socialists, other strands of socialists, communists, trade unionists)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>6.</b> Harold Wilson is prime minister of a <b>“centre” state and power</b> that was part of the victorious alliance that defeated a fascist global amalgam in a global war that ended in 1945 – barely 23 years earlier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>7.</b> Harold Wilson is prime minister of a <b>“centre” state and power</b> (sixth to occupy this exalted position since the end of the 1939-945 war) that was one of the key countries that worked on the panel that drafted the historic </span>1948 UN “Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>8.</b> Harold Wilson’s administration joins successive British governments in the past that have sought to “punish” the Igbo for the latter’s <b>vanguard role</b> during 1930s-October 1960 in the African peoples’ freedom project to liberate Nigeria, one of Britain’s <b>“prized African occupied states”</b> from 60 years of the British conquest; previous British governments had connived at the premeditated devastating <b>pogroms</b> of Igbo people organised and executed by the Fulani jihadist/islamist leadership (on the ground African strategic ally of the British occupation who Wilson would soon work with to unleash the Igbo genocide) in the north Nigeria towns of <b>Jos </b>(1945) and <b>Kano</b> (1953)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>9.</b> Harold Wilson pursues his genocide drive against the Igbo steeped in that overarching ideological rubric</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of the expressed <b>“diminution-of-African life”</b> that constitutes the engaging, subjugating template of 400 years of pan-European enslavement of the African humanity in the Americas and elsewhere, beginning in the 15th century, and Europe’s consequent occupation of the African homeland itself<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>10.</b> Harold Wilson oversees the <b>mass slaughter of the Igbo</b> from his 10 Downing Street London official residence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>11.</b> Harold Wilson embarks on the savagery of this campaign by constructing an alliance </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">of<b> willing and ruthless </b><i>pan-</i>African constituent nations in Nigeria itself including, particularly, <u>Yoruba</u>, </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><u>Urhobo</u> and <u>Edo</u> of its west regions, </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u>Hausa</u>, <u>Kanuri</u>, <u>Jawara</u>, <u>Nupe</u>, <u>Bachama</u>, <u>Tiv</u>, and <u>Jukun</u> of the north provinces, <b>all loyal to and led</b> by the </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><u>Fulani</u>, the visceral anti-African jihadists/islamists from Futa Djallon, 1000 miles away in northwestcentral Africa, who were<b> stridently opposed to the Igbo-driven</b> restoration of-African peoples-independence mission from the British occupation, and who had already demonstrated their expertise in Igbo mass slaughtering in the pogroms of 1945 and 1953 cited earlier</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>12.</b> Harold Wilson’s decree death target of a half </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">a million dead Biafrans</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">represents 4.2 per cent of the Igbo population at this time</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>13.</b> Harold Wilson realises 6-9 months after his “a half a million dead Biafrans”-death decree declaration, 12 January 1970, that his co-Nigerian genocidists on the ground have instead murdered <b>3.1 million Igbo people</b> – 2.6 million more or 25 per cent of the total Igbo population; definitely, the Nigerians have <u>handsomely obliged </u>their “massa” Harold Wilson’s <b>death decree of Igbo people</b>...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><b>14.</b> Harold Wilson is not the <b>least surprised</b> of this outcome, thanks to British weapons his government supplied its co-Nigerian genocidists to accomplish their exterminating project – as Wilson recalls most effusively in </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">his memoirs, published in 1971, the Nigerian military<b> expended more small arms</b> ammunition in its campaign to achieve its annihilative goal in Biafra <b>than the amount used</b> by the British armed forces “<i>during the whole</i>” of the 1939-1945 war (Harold Wilson, <i>Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record</i>,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, p. <span style="background: white;">630, added emphasis)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at the height of the genocide, summer 1968-12 January 1970, their allied rampaging
genocidists had turned swathes of Biafran territory into waste lands by the uncontrollable use of those British weapons that Wilson supplied so
generously to them (Wilson: 630); Scott is graphically emphatic as he declares that as the
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villages, they are the “best defoliant agent known” (<i>Sunday Telegraph</i>, London, 11 January 1970)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><br /></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><b>Igbo resilient spirit</b><br /><br />What has evidently underpinned the tenets of Harold Wilson’s very brazen role as this advocate of mass-slaughtering-of-Igbo people in the world of mid/late 1960s is his sheer confidence of a stunning “victory” in his stated goal: Harold Wilson believes fervently that given all the power at his disposal, and these are indeed immense, as we have shown, he would destroy Igbo people… There is, however, one feature in this outstretched power resource, a critical one for that matter, which Wilson is not in control of. Harold Wilson has no access to the resilient spirit of Igbo people, that <b>forte</b> that ensures Igbo survival of the genocide.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">BESIDES ALL the lead-countries involved in the Igbo genocide which have apparently had or still appear to have their comeuppance as a result, we demonstrate forthwith t</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">hat each lead-personage and a number of others involved in perpetuating this heinous crime against humanity has had their life/life’s </span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;">vital</i><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> interests impacted upon quite devastatingly <b>for their roles</b> in the genocide and in some examples have undergone a spectacular collapse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">We start with the so graphically dramatic case of <u>Olusegun Obasanjo</u>, one of the most viciously hate-ridden Igbophobists of the Igbo genocide on the ground assemblage in Nigeria, who the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">perceptive sociologist and criminologist Biko Agozino aptly reminds us of in his “Why Obasanjo may be heading to hell”, </span><a href="http://massliteracy.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/why-obasanjo-may-be-heading-to-hell.html">http://massliteracy.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/why-obasanjo-may-be-heading-to-hell.html</a><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">–</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">accessed 18 December 2014).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b style="font-size: 13.3333px;">2.</b><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><b style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Murtala Muhammed</b><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"> (genocidist commander, northwestcentral Biafra and commander of brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of hundreds of Igbo boys and men at </span><b style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Asaba</b><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;"><b>3.</b> </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">Harold Wilson </b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center;">(British prime minister, architect of Igbo genocide from his London offices and home, 3ooo miles away from Biafra, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">who embarked on the
Igbo genocide with the recorded death decree target of a half “a million
dead Biafrans” [see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Roger Morris, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Uncertain
Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">, London and New
York: Quartet Books, 1977, p. 122], </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">representing 4.2 per cent of the Igbo population at this time, realises
6-9 months after, 12 January 1970, that his co-Nigerian genocidists on the
ground of <u>lead-Fulani and Yoruba and Edo and Jukun and Urhobo and Bachama
and Hausa and Tiv and Nupe nations</u> have instead murdered 3.1 million Igbo
people – 2.6 million more than his dreadful tally desire or 25 per cent of the total
Igbo population; definitely, the Nigerians have handsomely obliged their
“massa” Harold Wilson’s Igbo death commission... A much perversely delighted Harold <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Wilson soon after recalls in his memoirs,
published in 1971, that the Nigerian military expended more small arms
ammunition in its campaign to achieve this envisaged annihilative goal in
Biafra than the amount used by the British armed forces “<i>during
the whole</i>” of the 1939-1945 war [see Harold Wilson, <i>Labour
Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record</i>,</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, p. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">630, added emphasis])</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>4. Ibrahim Taiwo</b> (parallel commander of genocidist brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of hundreds of Igbo boys and men at <b>Asaba</b>, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>6.</b> <b>Abdel Gamal Nasser</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>7.</b> <b>Adesanya Maja Adekunle</b> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13px;">(</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">On the ground genocidist trooper </span>“boy-boy” Adesanya Maja
Adekunle who was engaged in the slaughter theater in south Biafra in
1968 was so enthralled by his “massa” Harold Wilson’s notorious directive that he
publicly reminded the world, in a news conference attended largely by <u>British
and other foreign correspondents</u>, of the <b>definitive goal</b> of
this genocide: “We shoot at everything that
moves [in Igboland, and when our forces march into the centre of I[g]bo territory, we shoot
at everything, even at things that don’t move” (<i>The Economist</i>, London, 24 August 1968).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b>21. Diallo Telli</b> (Stridently anti-Igbo Fulani Guinea-Conakry official who was virulently opposed to discussing the Igbo genocide at any forums of the Organisation of African Unity where he was secretary general during the period. Telli was executed six years after the genocide in his Guinea state by head of regime Sekou Toure for </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">“involvement” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">in a Fulani-coup attempt to seize power in Conakry. </span></div>
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<b>25. David Cameron</b> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Former British prime minister who, with US President Obama, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives throughout these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime’s military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Cameron government]; Cameron resigned his prime minister’s position precipitously on 13 July 2016 after losing the “Brexit” referendum on British membership of the European Union)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>26. Hillary Clinton</b> (Former US secretary of state, Obama administration, January 2009-January 2013 – remained unrelentingly adamant, throughout her tenure, of <i>not</i> designating the islamist, northcentral/northeast-based insurgent organisation, Boko Haram, a terrorist organisation despite the latter’s murder of thousands of African peoples, overwhelmingly Igbo, during the period [it wouldn’t be until November 2013 that the US declared Boko Haram “terrorist” because Washington judged the group was “{now} develop{ing} links with other {islamists} such as al-Qaeda … to wage a global jihad”]; on 8 November 2016, contrary to overwhelming opinion poll indicators and leading pundits’ analyses and predictions, Clinton received a crushing defeat in the US presidential election by anti-establishment rival candidate Donald Trump – Clinton had run her campaign on a political platform billed largely on the continuation of the cardinal policies of the Obama presidency which includes its unflinching support for the Nigeria genocidist regime)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>27. Barack Hussein Obama</b> (US President who, with David Cameron, former British prime minister, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives during these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime’s military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo people across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Obama administration]; </span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Obama is the first African-descent president of the US republic in 233 years of existence and his unflinching support for an African-led genocidist regime in Africa waging a genocide against an African people is surely an unconscionably abhorrent tragedy of his presidential legacy)</span></div>
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<b style="font-style: normal;">29. Muhammadu Buhari </b><span style="font-style: normal;">(G</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">enocidist
operative in the Nigeria military – right from the launch of the Igbo genocide
on Sunday 29 May 1966 and during the Nigerian expansive trail of the mass
slaughter of Igbo military and civilians alike in north and west Nigeria
regions from 29 July 1966-5 July 1967 to encapsulate phases I-II of the
genocide timeframe. During phase-III of the genocide, the invasion of Biafra, 6
July 1967-12 January 1970, Muhammadu Buhari was commander of a genocidist corps in north
and northcentral Biafra, slaughtering to the hilt. Nigeria murdered 3.1 million
Igbo people during these three phases of the genocide. As from 1</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">3 January
1970, beginning of phase-IV of the genocide, Buhari has adhered rigidly to or
overseen the Nigeria regime’s blanket policy of non-development of occupied
Biafra, the regime’s aggressive degradation of socioeconomic life in Biafra,
and the regime’s exponential expropriation of the rich oil reserves of Biafra.
<b>Biafran assets looted by the occupation stand at US$1000 billion</b>. This
monstrously programmed pillaging of the wealthlands of Biafra since January
1970 by<u> Fulani</u>-led islamist jihadist Nigeria and their pan-African constituent nations allies particularly <u>Yoruba</u>, <u>Edo</u>, <u>Jukun</u>, <u>Urhobo</u>, <u>Bachama</u>, <u>Nupe</u>, <u>Tiv</u>, <u>Jarawa</u>, has <b>nothing comparable in African
history</b>. Finally, since 13 January 1970, Buhari has exhibited a calculated,
deafening silence over the course of the murder of additional tens of thousands of Igbo
people across Nigeria but especially in his north Nigeria homeland by regime
forces/allied forces including those massacred by the Boko Haram terrorist
organisation, which he and other islamist jihadists in the region inaugurated as their grand <b>fulanisation and islamisation of Nigeria</b>. Since his imposition as Nigeria's head of regime in March 2015 by ex-US President <u>Barack Hussein Obama</u> and ex-British Prime Minister <u>David Cameron</u>, <u>Muhammadu Buhari</u></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">regime with his adjunct-genocidist Boko Haram and Fulani militia allies (</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">two of the five deadliest terrorists
organisations in the world presently [</span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">see Institute for Economics
& Peace, “Global Terror Index 2015”, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><a href="http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> , accessed 17 November 2015]) have murdered 3000 Igbo people in occupied Biafra. These murders have continued unabated.)</span><br />
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<b style="font-style: normal;">(Muhammadu Buhari: </b><i>... fiendish Igbo genocidist operative from the outset of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966 ... </i>Imposed as head of regime in Nigeria by ex-US President <u>Barack Hussein Obama</u> and ex-British Prime Minister <u>David Cameron</u><i>. </i><u>Muhammadu Buhari</u><i> is on course to complete his ongoing violent project of the </i><b>fulanisation and islamisation </b><i>of British-client state Nigeria </i>which serves British interests in this northwestcentral Africa in perpetuity<b>)</b><br />
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<b style="font-style: normal;">28. </b><b>Fulani </b>islamist/jihadist, virulently anti-African grouping from Futa Djallon highlands, northwestcentral Africa, 1000 miles from their occupied north Nigeria, who have led this genocide for the past 53 years <b>with</b> their very loyal <i>pan</i>-African constituent allies especially <b>Yoruba</b>, <b>Jukun</b>, <b>Edo</b>, <b>Hausa</b>, <b>Urhobo</b>,<b>Bachama</b>, <b>Nupe</b><b>, Kanuri</b>, have expansively <u>murdered</u> and <u>murdered</u> and <u>murdered</u> Igbo most monstrously that there appears, apparently, no remaining new regions of savagery to explore to deploy in this march. Or are there?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">EACH AND EVERYONE of these <b>latter </b>African peoples or nations must now know
that it is trapped in the mephistophelian quagmire of British-created hotchpotch
Nigeria<i> precisely</i> for committing this heinous crime of genocide against Igbo people, for
murdering 3.1 million Igbo people in a frenzy during 44 months, Sunday 29 May
1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III, and then extending this odyssey of death by
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present day. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Each is assured that it will remain in there hopelessly indefinitely unless it, itself, abandons its half a century preoccupation to contribute its quota to wish to destroy one of Africa</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">s most talented, innovative and hardworking peoples. Each of these peoples must know that it has failed woefully to effectuate this goal of destroying Igbo people. No one can and will destroy the Igbo. The Igbo will ever remain triumphant. Unmistakably. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">There is no meaningful progress for </span><b>Yoruba</b>, <b>Jukun</b>, <b>Edo</b>, <b>Hausa</b>, <b>Urhobo</b>, <b>Bachama</b>, <b>Nupe</b>, except each, individually, as a people abandons its current genocidal march on Igbo people. Anyone of them ready to accept this move forward should contact, <i>at once</i>, the representatives of the Biafra freedom movement and discuss the terms of such a turning point of intent. These must include full reparations on the millions of the Igbo they have murdered in half a century, the billions of US dollars worth of legendary Igbo wealth they have plundered and transferred to their homelands, and the breathtaking vandalism of the dismantling of Igbo socioeconomics. Now is the time for this dash to alternative path to redemptive justice.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">IF EVER there were any doubts, the evidence from the history of the Igbo genocide, so far, demonstrates the contrary, so clearly as illustrated above with regards to the range of fates of states and individuals involved in the genocide, as particularly the references show on Sekou Toure</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">s reprehensible execution of raving anti-Igboist <b>Diallo Telli</b>, the collapse of the <b>Soviet Union</b>, occuring within a decade of the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the unravelling of the state of <b>Britain</b>, the architect of the genocide, contemporaneously as the world <i>has not known</i> it in the past 300 years, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">underpinned by the staggeringly indescribable humiliation that this country has been subjected by key states and officials in the European Union over the former</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">quest to leave the EU following a successful referendum, and <b>Barack Hussein Obama</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">appalling presidential legacy </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">– namely, that <b>no one</b>, <b>no agency</b>, murders 3.1 million Igbo children, women and men <b>and</b> additional tens of thousands of Igbo in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest </span><st1:place style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;" w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;"> and walks away free... None whatsoever...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">AS THE WORLD watches intensely, the now </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><b><u>5</u>0 million Igbo survivors of the genocide </b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">are individually and collectively involved in the current historic campaign for the restoration of their independence and justice... </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">And Biafra will achieve this freedom and justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">ON 29 DECEMBER 1920,<b> Hugh Clifford</b>, the British conquest and occupation administrator in </span><st1:country-region style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt;" w:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">, makes the following contribution to a “Legislative Council Debate”, Lagos:</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">IGBO and all other African peoples or nations who have lived
through the terror of the post-(European)conquest state must abandon it at once
to survive and advance towards the construction of higher levels of
civilisation. They have no other choice. </span><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Each is a </span><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">nation; they should proclaim their </span><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">sovereignty today. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Irrepressible Biafra spearheads this African
World freedom movement contemporaneously.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Each and every constituent African people or nation, whatever
their population size or wherever geography in Africa they are emplaced, <b>can</b> and<b>
should</b> build this civilisation outside the existing genocide state of
enthralled and degenerative</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">union exemplified, most
catastrophically in Africa by particularly three “states”: <b>Nigeria</b>, <b>the Sudan</b>, <b>the Congo-Kinshasa</b>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Let Africa’s constituent peoples or nations
unleash a dazzling contest of creativity and progress, a continuing mutual
bombardment and sharing of ideas and streams of possibilities, akin to what the
world has seen elsewhere in the South World in the past 40 years – <b><i>not</i></b>
the prevailing mass murdering campaign, mass murdering campaign, mass murdering
campaign, pillaging, pillaging, pillaging, nihilism, nihilism, nihilism, being
pursued with such a sheer savagery by the <i>anti-African</i> peoples’ north Nigeria-based
Fulani islamist/jihadists and their loyal Nigerian allies in Biafra…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">MOST SURELY, now is the time for each and every
African people in Africa</span></span> <span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #37404e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">to embark on
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe </b>is the author</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 </span></i><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">(2019) and co-author, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">with <b>Lakeson Okwuonicha</b>, <i>Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa</i> (2018)</span><br />
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<br />Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-16831415227924115212019-10-01T00:11:00.001-07:002019-10-01T03:55:46.734-07:0059th birthday of Esiaba Irobi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 10pt;">DISTINGUISHED </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Biafra restoration-of-independence centred scholar: <b>poet</b>, <b>essayist</b>, <b>dramatist
– </b><i>Cotyledons</i> (<b>1988</b>), <i>Inflorescence: Selected Poems, 1977-1988</i>
(<b>1989</b>), <i>Hangmen Also Die</i> (<b>1989</b>), <i>Gold, frankincense, and myrrh:
A play</i> (<b>1989</b>), <i>The other side of the mask: a play</i> (<b>1999</b>), <i>The
fronded circle: a play</i> (<b>1999</b>), <i>Why
I Don’t Like Philip Larkin and Other Poems</i> (<b>2005</b>)</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">(</span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">John Coltrane Quartet</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">, “Untitled original 90314” [personnel: </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">Coltrane</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">, tenor saxophone, </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">McCoy Tyner</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">, piano; </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">Jimmy Garrison</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">, bass; </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">Elvin Jones</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: normal;">, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, NJ, US, 16 June 1965])</span></i> </blockquote>
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-6889913701367913282019-09-29T00:06:00.001-07:002019-09-30T13:18:05.657-07:00REMINDER: Britain’s central role in the execution of the ongoing Igbo genocide ... As the British Labour party faces a meltdown over the antisemitism/racism crisis of its leader Jeremy Corbyn, we must stress that this affliction in the party started half a century ago – 53 years ago to be exact when the then Labour leader and prime minister, Harold Wilson, personally directed the prosecution of the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)occupation Africa, with Britain’s client-state Nigeria <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="textexposedshow" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">AT THE apogee of phase-III of the <b>Igbo genocide</b>, summer 1968-autumn 1969, 23 years after the horrendous <b>Jewish genocide</b> in east and central Europe carried out by <b>Germany</b>, <u>Harold Wilson</u> informed</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"> <u>Clyde Ferguson</u> (United States state department special coordinator for relief to Biafra), on record, that he, <i>Harold Wilson</i>, “would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” the Nigerian</span><span style="color: #252525; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"> génocidaires</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (<b>Roger Morris</b>, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, 1977: 122).</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">WILSON’s Igbo death-decree tally of 500, 000 represented 4.2 per cent of the Igbo population at the time. The prime minister’s on the ground African executioners led by <u>Fulani</u> islamist/jihadists <b>and</b> their loyal </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;"><b>pan</b>-African constituent n</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">ations’ </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">allies, particularly <u>Yoruba</u>, <u>Edo</u>, <u>Urhobo</u>, <u>Jarawa</u>, <u>Nupe</u>, <u>Hausa</u>, <u>Kanuri</u> and <u>Tiv</u>, fulsomely obliged their “massa” Wilson, murdering 3.1 million Igbo by 12 January 1970 – 2.6 million more Igbo than the Labour leader’s slaughtering target or 25 per cent of the Igbo population. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">Wilson would later acknowledge the extent of the British role in the sheer savagery of the Igbo genocide. In his memoirs, he notes that the Nigeria genocidist military, equipped zealously by Britain<b>, </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">expended <b>more small arms ammunition</b></span><b> </b>in its campaign to achieve its annhilative mission in Biafra<b> than </b>the amount used by the British armed forces “</span><i style="font-family: "times new roman";">during the whole</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">” of the Second World War (<b>Harold Wilson</b>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="font-family: "times new roman";">Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, 1971: 630, added emphasis).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> <u>Robert Scott</u>, military advisor in the British diplomatic mission in Nigeria then, couldn’t agree more with Wilson on the subject. Scott stated that as Nigerian genocidist military forces unleashed their attacks on Biafran cities, towns and villages, they are the “best defoliant agent known” (</span><i style="font-family: "times new roman";">Daily Telegraph</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, London, 11 January 1970). </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Chillingly dreadful...</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY that led Britain into executing the
Igbo genocide, this <b>crime against humanity</b>, is a <i>social
democratic</i>/<i>socialist</i>/<i>trade unionist</i> party,
democratically elected by the British population in October 1964 in one of the
leading West World countries </span>– it is “left wing”, “egalitarian”, “inclusivist”, “party of workingclass/people”, “progressive”, “liberal”, “humanist”, “internationalist” (usually
supported tactically, in major political developments, throughout the era, by
the Communist Party of Great Britain), <b><i>not</i></b> the
Conservative party nor “right wing” nor “conservative” nor “party of the oppressor” nor “party of the privileged” nor “party of the rich” nor “party of bankers and landowners” nor “nationalist” nor “nativist” nor “white man’s party”, nor “xenophobic” nor “far right” nor “fascist”... (<b>cf</b>. the cacophony
of the current epoch’s sloganising inanities that pass for studious political
discourses especially in Britain and the United States).<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">SEEN AGAINST this background of Prime Minister and British Labour party leader Harold Wilson</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">execution of the Igbo genocide with Britain</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">client state of Nigeria, beginning 53 years ago, the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">dossier of evidence so dramatically and uninterruptedly published in the past three years </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">by influential leaders of this party, leading Jewish leaders, and others elsewhere in Britain that the </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">current British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn is </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>antisemitic and racist</b> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">becomes hugely intelligible.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide(phase I-III)</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #333333;"> </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phase I-III)</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phase I-III)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">3.1millionIgboPeopleMurdered1966-1970IgboGenocide</span><span style="color: #333333;">(phases I-III)</span><br />
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1970 (phases I-III), when </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nigeria, headed by the African <u>Yakubu
Gowon-Obafemi Awolowo</u> bubonic genocidist dyarchy, <b>and</b> <span style="background: white;">its ruthless suzerain, co-genocidist state Britain, headed by Prime Minister <u>Harold Wilson</u> (“[I] would accept half a million dead
Biafrans if that was what it took...” <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>{<b>Roger Morris</b>, </span></span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Uncertain Greatness: Henry
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">BEGINNING in the early 1930s to October 1960, the <b>Igbo nation</b> played the <b>vanguard role</b> 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 regime contemptuously tagged “Nigeria” </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">– the “n*****” area/land, the egregious racist epithet</span><br />
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Britain responded with the genocide of the Igbo and employed its Fulani islamist/jihadist client on the ground, inveterately anti-African w<span class="textexposedshow">ho hitherto opposed the restoration-of-independence drive, <b>and</b> the Fulani</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">’s enduringly loyal </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="textexposedshow"><i><b>pan</b></i>-African constituent </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">nations’ </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">allies in Nigeria (particularly Yoruba, Jukun, Tiv, Urhobo, Hausa, Edo, Jawara, Nupe, Kanuri, Bachama) to execute this unprecedented mass murder of a people in contemporary Africa history most brazenly. The genocidists slaughtered </span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">3.1 million Igbo</b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> or 25 per cent of the Igbo population during the course of 44 months, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III. <b>Tens of thousands</b> of additional Igbo have been murdered subsequently, 13 January 1970-present day, phase-IV, as the genocide continues in its 53rd year.</span><br />
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-15271984168882630402019-09-23T00:41:00.001-07:002019-09-23T02:43:45.040-07:0093rd birthday of John Coltrane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-24675923634300014692019-09-21T06:55:00.002-07:002019-09-22T09:39:46.950-07:00Glasgow University to pay £20 million for “reparations” for this institution’s own role in 400 years of the pan-European enslavement of African peoples in the Americas (Daily Mail, London, 23 August 2019). Robert Cunninghame Graham, the university’s rector (principal/vice-chancellor/president) during the period, 1785-1787, had indeed lived 20 years earlier in Jamaica as an enslaver of the African humanity where he made his “fortune” (The Guardian, London, 23 August 2019) which he later invested handsomely back home in Scotland. Observers expect numerous British universities including, especially, colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, who received colossal wealth lodged in their treasuries generated from the African enslavement of these centuries to embark on their “reparations” decisions as Glasgow University has demonstrated. The following essay, entitled, “Britain is the lead-beneficiary of 400 years of the pan-European enslavement of African peoples”, puts this Glasgow University’s “reparations” presentation into an historical context<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">IN A December 2006 article for the <i>New Nation</i> (the London-based weekly newspaper that appeals to a wide African people’s readership), former British Prime Minister Tony Blair writes that he feels “deep sorrow” for Britain’s central role in the European World’s enslavement of African peoples. This declaration is surely not good enough as Britain is the leading beneficiary of this crime. Blair should have apologised unreservedly to Africans across the world for Britain’s role in this crime that remains humanity’s most gruesome, most expansive, and most enduring (<b>Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe</b>, <i>African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe</i>, 2001: especially, chapter 1, 1-54). Blair should have announced a comprehensive programme of <b>reparations</b> paid to surviving Africans in Africa, Europe, the Americas and elsewhere in the world for the crime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It must be emphasised that within 300 years of achieving the strategic control of Africa’s human and material resources, namely at the apogee of the African enslavement, Europe lays the foundation for the West’s political and economic hegemony of the world as we know it presently, in the 21st century. This is a fact – “though largely erased and ignored in Western thought”, as Michel Beaud, the influential French economist, is keen to remind the European World (</span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Michel Beaud</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">A History of Capitalism: 1500-1980</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, 1983: 44). Britain, the first truly effective Western global power, uses the gargantuan wealth it acquires during the course of its late 17th century/early 18th century pre-eminent role in the enslavement and mass exportation of millions of Africans to the Americas to consolidate its conquest of the Americas (especially the north/the Caribbean basin), embark on its conquest of India and other regions of Asia, embark on the subsequent pan-European (Britain, France, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Italy) conquest and occupation of a (subsequently) weakened Africa, and lastly, but surely not least in importance, finance its 19th century industrial revolution which is the turning point in the development of Western capitalism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;">BRITAIN’s success on this score cannot be over-stressed. This was a country which, prior to the mid-17th century, was still a “cultural and scientific backwater”, to quote the graphic description made by Christopher Hill, the eminent British historian who is an authority on this period of British history </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;">(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Hill</b>, “Lies about crimes”, <i>The Guardian</i>, London, 29 May 1989). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">By the beginning of the 18th century, Britain had established virtual world monopoly in the seizure and transportation of millions of Africans from their homelands to the Americas after displacing the Iberian states of Portugal and Spain. It used the enormous resources that accrued to it as a result to finance its burgeoning scientific and technological enterprises. Soon, as Hill further notes, Britain became the “centre of world science” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">(Hill, “Lies about crimes”, <i>The Guardian</i>, London, 29 May 1989). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">And to underline the sheer size of the wealth Britain was accumulating during the period, Charles Davenant, a late 17th century economist who studied the comparative worth of an enslaved African in the Caribbean and a worker in England, concludes: “[The labour of this enslaved African] is worth six times as much as the labour of an Englishman at home” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;">(<b>Christopher Hill</b>, “Lies about crimes”, <i>The Guardian</i>, London, 29 May 1989).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">WHILST studying the work of African labour force in the Guyanese sugar industry in the 1870s, it does not come as a shock to Joseph Beaumont, the British chief justice of Guyana, that it takes two to three days of work by the “best English laborer” (in England) of the day to complete a day’s work done by a typically enslaved African plantation worker (</span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Alan Adamson</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Sugar without Slaves</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, 1972: 112): “We have [in England] no excavating work so heavy as trench digging in Demerara [Guyana]”, Beaumont recalls, “and if the reader were to see a stalwart n[****] ... sweltering under the blazing sun throughout the day ... standing up to his knees and often to his hips in water, not only lifting (or more properly </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">wrenching</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">) 4000 to 5000 spits of dense clay ... throwing these twelve or sixteen feet clear on each side – not with a pleasant hammer throwing swing, but delivered straight from the loins at the end of a seven foot shovel ... I venture to think he would not only wonder at but </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">admire</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> ... the ‘lazy n[*****]’” (emphasis in the original) (</span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Sidney Mintz</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, “Descrying the Peasantry”, 1982: 210).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">During the 300 years of Britain’s ascendancy as the world’s principal enslaver-power in Africa and the Americas, leading members of its state establishment (especially in royalty, clergy, parliament, industry, academia, science and the arts) personally and collectively profited enormously from this unprecedented holocaust in human history. Cities such as London, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Blackpool, Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow became extremely rich, showcasing the spectacular transformation that each had undergone from being key destinations of prime investment of profits accruing to the British treasury from the enslavement of the African humanity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">THEREAFTER, Britain became the epicentre of the intellectual activity of an ever-expanding collective of European World genocidist scholars, scientists and writers who offered the “requisite” cultural/scientific/literary rationalisation for the African enslavement and genocide. Influential members of this collective would include Spencer, Petty, Darwin, Lyell, Prichard, Reade, Locke, White, Knox, Marx, Hume, Lee, Farrar, Coupland, Egerton, Trevor-Roper, Conrad, Kipling, Carey, Haggard, Burroughs, Buchan, Mitford, Monsarrat, Ballantyne, Huxley and Blixen (Ekwe-Ekwe, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">African Literature in Defence of History</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">passim</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">These practitioners, in a sentence, turned Britain into the </span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">creator, cardinal codifier, and pivotal publicist of pan-European racism as an ideology</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> – to effectuate that strategic goal of erasure that Michel Beaud so cogently refers to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">The stupendous fortune Britain earned from this holocaust and the accompanying gullies of socio-economic devastation it unleashed across Africa and African survivors in Africa itself, the Americas and elsewhere in the world, ensured that a triumphant Prime Minister Salisbury confidently insisted, in a speech in London in 1898, that “One can roughly divide the nations of the world into the living and the dying ... [T]he living nations will fraudulently encroach on the territory of the dying” (<b>Sven Lindqvist</b>, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">“</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Exterminate All the Brutes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, 1997: 140). Less than 50 years after these remarks, the dire consequences of pogroms and holocausts would be felt much closer home to the heart of Europe rather than just the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">targeted lands further afield in Africa and elsewhere. On this, Sven Lindqvist has observed solemnly:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">AS should be expected, the effects on Africans and their homeland of this earlier holocaust, have been grave indeed: the active human power of millions of future African generations were uprooted and shipped off to the Americas by European enslavers to work the cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations, excavate the gold and silver mines, and build new towns and cities in territories being conquered by expansionist European conqueror forces. In the process, as Cheikh Anta Diop has shown, Africa lost about 150 million of its peoples as enslaved, including those who died during the overland journey, crisscrossing west Africa and elsewhere, to conveyor-ships and the voyage to the Americas (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cheikh Anta Diop</b>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Precolonial Africa</i>, 1987: 142).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Soon, Britain and the rest of the European powers (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Spain), who eventually occupied Africa, turned the continent into a reservoir of cheap labour for intensive and extensive agricultural and mineralogical exploitation. The African farmer was converted overnight into a “cash crop farmer”, a term that at face value has a dubious meaning as it is aimed to describe a farmer who cultivates assorted crops such as cotton, cocoa, palm produce, groundnut, cloves and sisal solely for export to European markets. The farmer who cultivates other crops, but for the home market, which he or she still sells for cash, is not a “cash crop farmer”! Instead, goes the conquest-economics jargon, the latter farmer is involved in “subsistent farming”. Considering that the overwhelming majority of Africans were, and are still farmers, these millions of people were, as a result of the European conquest and occupation, </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">being culturally alienated</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> at the crucial site of their economic activity with obvious far-reaching implications, which are still at the core of Africa’s current tragedy. If the African labour was not bound for agricultural activity, “cash crop”, or not, he or she was instead deployed by the occupation-state to the European mining corporations dotted all over the continent to extract various types of minerals including diamonds, gold, tin, bauxite, coal, copper, iron ore and petroleum products – again for export to the European World. All forms of taxes were imposed to expedite this European take-over of Africa, and the strategic spheres of the continent’s independent pre-conquest cultural, industrial and other forms of technological creativity therein were curtailed or suppressed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">IN EFFECT, African land and property relations were abolished by the occupation to make way for the seizure of land for both plantation agriculture and mining enterprises already referred to, or for the construction of new communication infrastructure, or for the direct population settlement by European immigrants as exemplified in east Africa (Kenya), southern Africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Angola, Namibia), west Africa (São Tomé and Principé, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde) and north Africa (Algeria). Again, Britain was the leading conqueror-state beneficiary during this phase of the direct occupation of Africa, having particularly seized lands with major population centres and vast and multiple natural resource emplacements: South Africa, Namibia (proxy control, post-1918 – after the defeat of Germany in 1914-1918 war), Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania (post-1918, after the defeat of Germany in 1914-1918 war), the Sudan, Nigeria, south Cameroons (post-1918, after the defeat of Germany in 1914-1918 war), Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia. In each of these conquered lands as well as others, now arbitrarily carved out from hitherto existing African states, the European regime imposed its monetary system on society and also ensured that the terms for the exchange of goods and services, fundamental for the logical development of any socio-economic activity or relation, was inextricably tailored to the needs and expectations of the home market back home (in Europe). No doubt, the economies that emerged subsequently in Africa, particularly on the eve of the so-called re-establishment of the peoples’ independence from the mid-1950s, were structurally bereft of local needs and priorities. Instead, these were mineralogical and agricultural redoubts to service a European home market, and, at the same time, conduits for European emigration to occupy even more swathes of Africa lands especially in east/southern regions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">In summary, three distinct consequences on the African humanity can be discerned from the British-led (i.e. post-mid 17th century) enslavement of Africans or the African holocaust. First, the seizure and exportation of 150 million Africans from Africa to the Americas and elsewhere. Second, the destruction/near destruction of local populations and the dispatch of survivors/others into labour reserves/“townships” to make way for direct European occupation (particularly east/southern Africa) as from the 19th century, and, finally, the overall control of subjugated populations and the conversion of human and material resources to serve pan-European interests (rest of Africa), which has continued virtually uninterrupted to this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">THE CONCERTED African drive, beginning soon after the 1939-1945 war, to free the continent of European control has yet to achieve its strategic objective: unfettered restoration-of-independence. Britain and France and Belgium and Portugal and Spain just won’t let go of Africa; for these countries, the phenomenal bounties of the African conquest are yet to be fully expropriated, despite the enslavement and genocide, despite the hundreds of years of occupation, and, more importantly, despite the insistence of the post-1945 African restoration of independence mission. Starting from 1956 in Sudan, Britain (once again!) embarked on the construction of a constellation of kakistocratic states across the continent to precisely neutralise the emergence of this new, free Africa. Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia and others, as well as the Belgian and French derivatives of these monstrous constructs (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo Republic, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, etc., etc.) soon followed suit. In Nigeria, in 1966, Britain perfected, even further, the catastrophic tentacles of kakistocracy in Africa (</span><b style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><i>Biafra Revisited</i>, 2006).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">IN CONCERT with the Nigeria state (religious, military, police, academic, bureaucracy, media) and the leaderships of key constituent nations in the country (especially, Fulani, Yoruba, Tiv, Nupe, Bachama, Urhobo, Edo, Hausa, Kanuri, Jarawa) Britain inaugurated the quintessential genocidal state in Africa: Nigeria. Britain and its Fulani islamist/jihadist-led <i>pan</i>-African nations</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> allies (<i>as just enumerated above</i>) murdered 3.1 million Igbo people during the course of 20 May 1966-12 January 1970 (phase-I of genocide) in the most horrendous genocide of Africans not seen on the continent since the mid-19th century genocide of Africans in the Congo basin of central Africa carried out by King Leopold II of the the Belgians/Belgium state. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">At the apogee of the Igbo genocide, Harold Wilson, the British prime minister who oversaw the perpetration of this crime from his office and home at 10 Downing Street London was completely unperturbed to </span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;">inform</span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;">Clyde Ferguson (United States state department special coordinator for relief to Biafra), on record, that he, <i>Harold Wilson</i>, “would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” the Nigerian</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;"> génocidaires</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.1333px;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (<b>Roger Morris</b>, </span><i>Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy</i>, 1977: 122). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; text-align: justify;">INDEED, the mass murder of the Igbo, centrally organised by Britain, sets the grotesque precedence that would chart and characterise the defining features of African politics during the subsequent 30 years: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo Republic, Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan. A total of 12 million Africans have been murdered in these countries since the Igbo genocide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">As the Africans in a Nigeria or a Sudan languish in perpetuity in these perditions of “homeland” of British creation, the British continue to enjoy unprecedented levels of profits from these “countries”, day in, day out, receive net capital inflows from these territories, including those looted by thieving “leaderships” and officials, and appropriate critical resources from there at will ... Britain, and the rest of the European World, couldn’t ask for a more enabling environment to expropriate and expropriate the vast riches of Africa indefinitely.</span><br />
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<b>(Nnamdi Kanu:</b> <i>...</i> <i>leader of the <b>I</b>ndigenous </i><b><i>P</i></b><i>eople <b>o</b>f <b>B</b>iafra </i>...<i> </i>Biafrans are poised to free themselves from genocidist & kakistocratic Nigeria ... <u>Igbo freedom will inaugurate the age of freedom for African peoples with inestimable transformative possibilities<i>...</i></u><b>)</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Adamson, Alan. <i>Sugar without Slaves</i>. New Haven: Yale University, 1972.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Beaud, Michel. <i>A History of Capitalism: 1500-1980</i>. New York: Monthly Review, 1983<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Diop, Cheikh Anta. </span><i style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Precolonial Africa</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;">. New York: Lawrence Hill, 1987.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">IF YOU are travelling from Enuugwu
towards Nsukka on the more recently built roadway that goes northwards of the
Nike clan, when you get to Ogbeke Nike, on the right side of the road there
begins a sprawling vibrated cement blocks perimeter fence that runs parallel to
the road all the way for an extensive distance before it meanders endlessly
uphill and deep into the forest indicating what is obviously a mindless
land-grab bordering on speculation. There’s nothing about this endless
undeveloped land-grab that reveals who it actually belongs to. Not even the
road-side signage on it that deceptively announces that the sprawling “PARCEL
OF LAND BELONGING TO LEGAL PROTECTION COUNCIL” is truly revealing of the
individual to whom it actually belongs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">IT was by coincidental happenstance
that this writer got to know that the actual owner of this sprawling endless
acreage of land is indeed, Ike Ekweremadu, who is also a member of the Nigerian
Senate in Abuja. Mr. Ekweremadu who is from the Ogwu (Agwu) clan, which is located
far away from Nike, on the dilapidated Enuugwu-Umuahia-Port Harcourt
expressway, has been in the Nigerian Senate since 2003. He was for the
four-year duration that ended just this year, the deputy president of Nigeria’s
Senate. On the occasion when Ekweremadu’s ownership of the said sprawl was
disclosed to this writer, the latter had offered a ride to three middle-age
local ladies en route Nsukka. It was during the course of the chit-chat that
they held between them during the journey’s course, which this writer
eaves-dropped on, that suddenly veered onto the subject matter of land-grab
when the car got to and began to speed past the said endless sprawl that those
female free riders revealed that indeed, the said stupendous land-grab belongs
to Ekweremadu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">EKWEREMADU’s encounter Saturday,
August 17 with angry Igbo youth in the city of Nuremberg in faraway Germany
brings to context his politics and his avaricious penchant for using same in
the main, to exclusively feather his personal nest all the way at the expense
of his Igbo race and its destiny in unitary Nigeria. Mouths have wagged and
continue to wag in the bid to cast aspersions on the Igbo youth involved
without regard for the more pertinent issues that are involved as they tie into
the Igbo Question in the Nigeria project vis-a-viz what got Ekweremadu and the
youth, together in that infamous dustup.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">For full disclosure, the intention
here by this writer is neither to condone, nor justify what may have transpired
there, indeed happened to Ekweremadu in Nuremberg during that encounter.
Instead, the essence here is to contextualize the encounter, and possibly
proffer an explainer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">SOME OF THE immediate assertions above
tie quite deeply into the raging perception out there amongst many Igbo
regarding Ekweremadu and the claims he makes to Igbo identity and his selfish
exploitation of same in his politics and avaricious pursuit of his narrow
self-interests. The widely held perception out there, which should not be
dismissed as invalid is that he parasites off Igbo identity in his politics at
a time when the anger over the Igbo condition in unitary Nigeria project is
palpable amongst the youth at home and in the diaspora. Anyone who is oblivious
of the truism that most, if not all that constitute today’s Igbo Diaspora were<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">compelled to emigrate abroad in search
economic sustainance by the dire situation of affairs with regard to the Igbo
in the Nigeria project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Some of the Igbo who this writer
elicited their views on the subject matter of this piece recalled how
Ekweremadu cried out loud the other time when he was being throttled by minders
of the unitary state in the Nigeria project with the dubious claim that the
latter picked on him simply because he’s Igbo! That out-cry of dissemblance
from him elicited solidarity response from many Igbo, and it probably compelled
his supposed Hausa-Fulani traducers to let up on him at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">YET Ekweremadu consistently conducts
himself in ways that convey the impression that he’s mindless of the
existential threat that the Nigeria project and the configuration of its
political economy represent for the Igbo and their destiny as a people since
the end of the shooting phase of the Nigeria-Biafra war in January 1970 and the
events that precipitated it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Almost all those surveyed for their
opinion by this writer about Ekweremadu voiced the view that his encounter with
angry Igbo youth in Nuremberg, Germany is symbolic of expiatory trials of Nazi
war criminals that took place in that city right after Nazi hostilities where suppressed
in World War II. Some even argued that he encounter could qualify as an attempt
by the former to put Ekweremadu and his politics of predation at the expense of
the Igbo on popular trial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Some of those who spoke to this writer
went to great length to furnish pointers to buttress their views that
Ekweremadu’s primary motivating focus has been the raw acquisition of wealth
and aggrandizing fame at the expense of Igbo good. One of them pointed out the
placement of giant billboards at strategic locations in the city of Enuugwu
earlier this year to mark his birthday celebration. According to eye-witnesses,
the said billboards touted banal claims that prefixed him as Professor Dr.
Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a professor of law at a university in faraway Louisiana,
in the US. One person who claims he knows Ekweremadu quite well swore that he’s
aware that Ekweremadu hired and retains a special assistant who ghosted to
enable him to acquire two advanced law degrees from a local university in
Enuugwu. Another disclosed that he is always quick to deflate requests from his
constituents who approach him with the pathetic excuse line that he is merely
“in government and not in power in Abuja”. Indeed!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">IN THE CONTEXT of Ekweremadu’s
sympathizers who voiced strong views that German authorities in Nuremberg must
identify, arrest and prosecute the youth involved in the encounter, there is
one succinct explainer: Germany’s Nazi past notwithstanding, civil society and
the rule of law are still well and alive in that country for all residents,
citizens and non-citizens alike. Unlike in unitary Nigeria, in Germany, public
protests by aggrieved citizens, and others are allowed and are used to speak
truth to power and its public actor custodians. Leadership responsiveness is still
an integral component of social authority patterns and the practice of
authority in society in democratic Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The implication of the Ekweremadu-Igbo
youth encounter being that the former and his likes have been put on notice by
the latter, and rightly so, that the tide has certainly shifted against selfish
actors in the Igbo public space.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">THE VIDEO clips of Ekweremadu in that
encounter found online speak volumes. Clad in an outfit resplendent with the
motif of unitary Nigerian state, he cuts a pathetic picture as he scampered
away in the apparent attempt to seek refuge in a building with his fellow Igbo,
angryand in hot pursuit. One of them can be heard repeatedly calling him a
“useless man”. Then came the frames when he was quickly dragged out of the
building through some distance towards a white sedan car into which he was
pushed and driven away. The evident add up from the drama being the apparent
message from his fellow Igbo that they have had enough of those who find cheap
currency in their destiny as a people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">****<b>Professor EC Ejiogu</b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">, formerly at the Centre
for Africa Studies, University of the <st1:state u1:st="on">Free State</st1:state>, <st1:country-region u1:st="on"><st1:place u1:st="on">South
Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, is the author of <i>The Roots of
Political Instability in <st1:country-region u1:st="on">Nigeria</st1:country-region>:
Political Evolution and Development in the <st1:place u1:st="on"><st1:placename u1:st="on">Niger</st1:placename> <st1:placetype u1:st="on">Basin</st1:placetype></st1:place></i>
(Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 2011) and guest
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of Asian and African Studies</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #403838; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">’s <u>Special Issue on Chinua Achebe: The
Igbo Pogrom, Biafra War and Genocide in Nigeria (Vol 48, 6, December 2013)</u></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--></span>Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-78596871860698736442019-09-17T00:59:00.001-07:002019-10-04T13:41:36.368-07:00Not “xenophobia”! Call the current murders of non-South African Africans in South Africa for what it is: African-run state in South Africa, headed by Cyril Ramaphosa, murders African peoples from elsewhere on the continent domiciled in South Africa so savagely <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><u>Herbert
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">THE CYRIL RAMAPHOSA </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">African</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">-led South African regime and its clearly state propped
up armed bands of South Africans have continued their unrelentingly mapped out
murders of African peoples from elsewhere in Africa who live in South Africa.
Twelve Africans have so far been “registered” murdered in the past few days but
full casualty figures are sure to rise as more reports from gory crime scenes
from particularly the Gauteng province that embraces both Pretoria and Johannesburg,
the red cross, hospitals and other emergency services are published.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><b>(1. </b>African-led<b> Cyril Ramaphosa regime </b>in South Africa </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;"><b>vs</b></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"> </span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">African</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><i>émigrés </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 15.6933px;">in South Africa, 14 February 2018-present<b>)</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">IN THE past decade, the South
Africans have murdered hundreds of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">African</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">émigrés in </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">their
country especially those<span style="color: #333333;"> from Biafra, Tanzania,
Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The murderers have looted and destroyed the émigrés’ homes
and have forced hundreds of thousands of survivors sent into horrid South
Africa refugee camps or forced to return to their various countries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The near 26,000 Biafra</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">émigrés in the country, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">who had themselves fled the ongoing 53 years of the
Igbo genocide in occupied Biafra by Fulani-led islamist/jihadist genocidist in Nigeria,
have borne the brunt of this savage campaign including the very latest. Since
February 2016, over 120 Igbo in South Africa have been murdered as thousands
of desperate survivors seek alternative countries for refuge. Observers have
been shocked and outraged over the obnoxious obstacles placed recently by the
South African immigration services at the main Johannesburg airport on the
spirited effort made by Allen Onyeama, the Igbo businessperson, whose “Air
Peace” airline services have provided free special evacuation flights for Igbo
survivors out of South Africa (<i>Vanguard</i>, Lagos, 11 September 2019).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>(Allen Onyeama</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“Air Peace” airline services <b>evacauting</b> <i>Igbo survivors</i> of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p>raging murders of </o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">African</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">émigrés domiciled in South Africa, carried out by the country</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">African-led regime [</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">saharareporters.com</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">, New York, 16 September 2019]</span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">)</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">What “xenophobia”?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">ALL along, as this murder campaign
rages, the South Africa state categorises this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heinous crime exclusively subjected at African<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>émigrés in its country so quaintly and
outrageously with the essentially sanitising euphemism, “xenophobic
attacks” – an outrage of a designation readily picked up, re-packaged, re-broadcast, often uncritically with relish, across the world by
the usual expressly <i>anti-African lives</i>’ broadcasters and other news
organisations and commentators. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Instead what the world is witnessing
presently in South Africa is a carefully state-planned murdering campaign
against <i>targeted</i> African émigrés in South Africa and
executed by organised South African death-squads. It must be called by its
name: <b>murder</b>. There must be no obfuscation in presenting this crime
for what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">According to the
latest UN statistics on “people from other countries” or “foreigners” domiciled
in South Africa indicating clearly what countries they had been born, there are
a total of 33 countries – from across the world, Americas to Australasia, with
a population of approximately 4 million (<i>moastarblog.wordpress.com</i>,
accessed 12 September 2019). Sixteen of the countries are from Africa and the
rest are from Europe, Asia and the United States (<i>moastarblog.wordpress.com</i>).
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Zimbabwe nationals
constitute the highest number of “people from other countries” or “foreigners” in
the data with approximately 650,000, followed by Mozambique, 380,000 (<i>moastarblog.wordpress.com</i>).
There are 124,000 British nationals who live here and the figures from just a
few of the other 33 countries that follow underscore the range of geographical diversity
of “people from other countries” in South Africa: 94,000 Germans; 45,000 Portuguese;
40,000 Indians; 39,000 Italians; 33,000 Dutch; 20,000 Irish; 13,000 French;
13,000 Belgians; 12,000 Australians; 40,000 Indians; 39,000 Chinese; 17,000
Americans; 27,000 Kenyans; 17, 000 Pakistani; 11,000 Ghanaian (<i>moastarblog.wordpress.com</i>,
accessed 12 September 2019)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">THE WORD “xenophobia” in English
means “</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">dislike of or
prejudice against people from other countries”. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> From the definition, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">“against people from other
countries” is the key principle applicable to any geography of reference in the
world that this meaning is solicited and this is crucial in our focus here.
No English dictionary defines “xenophobia” in some restricted racialised/regionalised
format as </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">“</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">dislike of or prejudice against people from African countries”,
<i>for instance</i>, <b>or</b> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">“</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">dislike of or prejudice against people from other African countries”<b>
or</b> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">“</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">dislike
of or prejudice against African peoples from other countries” as the sheer horror
of the operationalisation of this South African state-sponsored murder of African
</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">émigrés, stepped up more aggressively during the African-led Jacob Zuma
regime last decade, has been perversely portrayed to the world by state propagandists
in Pretoria.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><b>(2. </b>African-led<b> Jacob Zuma regime </b>in South Africa <b>vs</b> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">African</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">émigrés<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;">in South Africa, 9 May 2009-14 February 2018<b>)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">POINTEDLY, Zuma’s and the present
Ramaphosa regime have carved out and designated the residential districts of nationals
from predominantly 16 African countries resident in South Africa for murderous
assaults on them, <b>as the regimes deem fit</b>, out of the rest of the nationals of
the remaining 17 countries of the world resident in the country, principally
from the United States, Europe and Asia. These African-led regimes have turned
the African émigrés’ populations in South Africa into “hostage” emplacements or
South Africanised-adapted <i>lebensraum</i> (borrowed and adapted from the studies of a range
of German racist geographers and other </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“t</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">heorists</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">”</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of the 19th century which were executed
on the ground most catastrophically in Africa, firstly, and latterly in Europe by follow on German genocidist practitioners
of the 20th century) <b>to</b> </span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">enable </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">those</span><b style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">groupings of its </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">African</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">
South Africans, very pessimistic about their future prospects in the country, <b>to
commit </b>regularly orchestrated murder and pillage as their own primary source for
social existence.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">This is a hardly disguised state diversionary
preoccupation. The South Africa state engages in these murders as part of the
explosively contentious contemporary politics in South Africa where it has
exhibited singularly demonstrable failure to transform the country for its
peoples </span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">after 342 years of the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">pan</span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-European conquest,
occupation, and subjugation – despite the “breakthrough” of 1994 which occurred,
most importantly to stress here, with incomparable several decades’ of unflinching
support and solidarity from particularly the African World, from Barbados to
Biafra.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">SOUTH AFRICA has not murdered <b>any</b>
non-<i>African</i> national during the course of its so-called xenophobic
attacks” on “foreigners” in the country. Neither the Zuma regime nor indeed
Ramaphosa’s would dare attack American citizens or any in the range of European
citizens domiciled in South Africa (as the list above shows) with such gross callousness
that has characterised these anti-African death campaigns and hope to survive
in office in weeks. We mustn’t fail to note that the latter foreign national
residents, especially from Europe (B</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">ritish, Dutch, German, French, Italian), </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">come from the <b>same countries</b> which originally conquered
and occupied South Africa and still exercise expansive interests and control of
the economy of the country presently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">The African World faces a killer <i>African</i>-led
regime in South Africa which murders African peoples from elsewhere on the
continent living within its frontiers with impunity. The silence from the
African World to this </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">raging inhumanity at
display from African-led South Africa is unconscionable. Africans, <i>worldwide</i>,
must now break with South Africa in response to this unmitigated horror
starting right away in the following arenas: political/diplomatic relations, businesses
and trade, academic/intellectual exchanges, cultural ambassadorships/enterprises,
social travels, sports engagements, etc., etc. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #281e1e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">African peoples’ <i>lives matter</i>.
Or don</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">’t </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #281e1e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">they? If these current Zuma, Ramaphosa et al African-led South African
regimes who murder other African peoples in South Africa in the 21st century so
flagrantly were led instead by a European in previous eras such as a Hendrik Verwoerd,
B J Vorster, Marais Viljoen, PW Botha, Jan Heunis or a FW de Klerk, there would
surely have been a thunderous outcry from across Africa and its diaspora to
these executions. But it appears Africans appear to “tolerate” the <b>agency</b>
of such catastrophic violence on African peoples if the band of perpetrators is
African-led. It is precisely because of this morbid silence from African
publics that African-led regimes, </span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">not <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">from </span></span></i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Europe, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">not<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> from</span></i> the United States, </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">not<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></i>“the white man”,<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">not</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> <i>from</i> any
extracontinental African aggressor state, have murdered <b>15 million African
peoples</b> in genocides and wars across Africa (west, north, northcentral, northeast,
eastcentral, southern regions) since that Nigeria-based Yakubu Gowon-Obafemi
Awolowo bubonic genocidist dyarchy launched the Igbo genocide on 29 May 1966. The
dyarchy </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">murdered</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"> 3.1 million Igbo people, 25
per cent of this nation’s population, in this gruesome, foundational genocide
of post-(European)conquest Africa during phases I-III, 29 May 1966-12 May 1970.
The genocide goes on, phase-IV, 53 years, and subsequent African-led regimes entrenched
in Nigeria have murdered tens of thousands of additional Igbo since.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">FOR PEOPLES who denounce anti-African violence
and racism in all their forms, especially when directed against them from
European peoples or from others (rightly so), Africans, wherever they are,
must now know that they stand to forfeit any moral rectitude if they
continue this deafening silence over the defiantly, openly waged march of gruesome,
irrepressibly driven </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">murders of African </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">émigrés</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> in South
Africa. The murders are carried out by African-led regimes of Jacob Zuma and Cyril
Ramaphosa in the country. Zuma and Ramaphosa are no less enwrapped in this state’s
cataclysmic laughter of African peoples as hitherto European-led liquidating South
African regimes whose names, among others, are, on record, as Naudé, Fouché,
Diederichs, </span><span style="color: #281e1e; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Verwoerd, Vorster, Viljoen and Botha.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Okigbo is Africa’s most celebrated and most influential poet.
He occupied the poetry chair of the continent’s post- (European)conquest
literary academy in the 1960s with <b>Chinua Achebe</b> the head of the novel
institute and <b>Wole Soyinka</b>, head of drama.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Okigbo’s scholarship and influences are
extensive and varied: Igbo history, mythology, art and philosophy, ancient
world religious and spiritual heritage encompassing Nri, Kemet (“ancient
Egypt”), Babylon, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Greece and Roman
as well as the poetry of Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Milton, Yeats, Mallarmé, Eliot,
Pound, Hopkins. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">RIGHT from the outset, Okigbo’s perspicacious intellectual
contribution in mapping out the tenets of Africa’s renaissance scholarship is
his focus on both redeeming the European occupation’s assault on the spiritual
embodiment of the African existence, in the wake of the conquest, and confronting
a ruthless genocide state-in-the-making in Nigeria at the first half of the
1960s. Okigbo’s worldview does not tolerate any excuses for either the
perpetration or perpetuation of any forms of tyranny and subjugation of
peoples. Since then, Okigbo’s poetry has had a profound impact on the work of
several poets of his generation as well as on the ever-expanding stretch of the
continuing-Igbo genocide-generation of poets and writers in other genres.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<b><span style="background: white;">Crucial site</span></b><br />
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<span style="background: white;">FIFTY THREE years on, the state in contemporary
Africa is essentially a genocide-state – exemplified, most catastrophically, by
Nigeria, the Sudan and the so-called Democratic Republic of the Congo. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Okigbo’s incisive scholarship (see, especially, Christopher Okigbo, <i>Heavensgate</i>, <i>Silences</i>, <i>Limits</i>, <i>Distances</i>,
“Laments of the Masks”, “Laments of the Deer”, “Four Canzones” and <i>Path
of Thunder</i>), to the poet’s eternal credit, anticipates the nature and
characterisation of the multifocal crises of this development and rigorously
interrogates their tragic consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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European conquest and occupation, the spiritual is a crucial site of the
African resistance and campaign for the restoration of sovereignty. This is
because the eventual goal of the occupation’s assault is aimed at burrowing a
cataclastic fault-line in the soul of the people to pre-empt or complicate
their determined process of recovery on the morrow of the triumph of freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">EVIDENTLY, Okigbo responds to this emergency, in his poetry,
by weaving a multilayered and panoramic landscape of often-complex fabric of
overarching architecture of ideas that meditates on the variegated spiritual
universe of the people.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">In the 1960-1966 Nigeria historical context,
particularly, Okigbo’s poetry of resistance pitches its tent squarely on behalf
of those who would confront blatantly-rigged election results (1959/1960-1966) and
imposed parties and leaderships (1959-1966), rigged census returns (1962, 1963),
arbitrary arrests and detentions (1960-1966), rabid and rampant
authoritarianism (1960-1966) and, most tragically of all, the Nigeria state &
its British suzerain state-organised genocide against the Igbo people (beginning
Sunday 29 May 1966). The poet himself was killed defending his beloved
motherland. The dual-genocidists murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or one-quarter
of the Igbo population during the 44 months of phases I-III of the genocide –
29 May 1966-12 January 1970. In phase-IV, which the genocidists launched on 13
January 1970 and continues unrelentingly to this day, they have murdered tens
of thousands of additional Igbo. The latter include the 3000 Igbo murdered since
November 2015 by the fiendish <u>Muhammadu Buhari</u> genocidist regime which was
installed in power by ex-British Prime Minister <u>David Cameron</u> and <u>Barack
Hussein Obama</u>, ex-US president, the first African-descent president in 233
years of the founding of the United States republic. <u>Barack Hussein Obama</u>’s
unconscionable support for the Igbo genocide is the abominable legacy of his
presidency.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In the gripping lines of Okigbo’s last poem cycle, <i>Path
of Thunder</i>, written before the 29 May 1966 outbreak of the Igbo genocide
but published posthumously, he breathtakingly presages the contours of the
cataclysmic consequences of Africa’s foundational genocide of the 20th century
and his own likely death during the slaughter:</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">AND THE HORN may now paw the air howling goodbye
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<span style="background: white;">For the Eagles are now in sight:</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Shadows in the horizon –</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">THE ROBBERS are here in black sudden steps of
showers, of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">caterpillar – </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="background: white;">THE EAGLES have come again,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The eagles rain down on us –</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">POLITICIANS are back in giant hidden steps of
howitzers, of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">detonators – </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">THE EAGLES descend on us,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Bayonets and cannons – </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">THE ROBBERS descend on us to strip us of our
laughter, of our </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">thunder – </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">THE EAGLES have chosen their game …</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">…</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">POLITICIANS are here in this iron dance of
mortars, of</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="background: white;">THE EAGLES are suddenly there,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">New stars of iron dawn;</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">So let the horn paw the air howling goodbye …</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">O mother mother Earth, unbind me; let this be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">my last testament; let this be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The ram’s hidden wish to the sword the sword’s</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">secret prayer to the scabbard –</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">BEYOND the iron path careering along the same
beaten track – </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">THE GLIMPSE of a dream lies smouldering in a
cave,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">together with the mortally wounded birds.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Earth, unbind me; let me be the prodigal; let
this be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the ram’s ultimate prayer to the tether …</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">AN OLD STAR departs, leaves us here on the shore</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Gazing heavenward for a new star approaching;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">The new star appears, foreshadows its going</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Before a going and coming that goes on forever…</span></span> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">(<b>Christopher Okigbo</b>, <i>Labyrinths with Path of Thunder</i>, 2008: 71-72.)</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">CHRISTOPHER IFEKANDU OKIGBO would be appalled by
the devastation of Biafra, 53 years after the end of the phases I-III of the Igbo
genocide, and 49 years after the launch of phase-IV of the genocide. The Fulani
islamist/jihadist-led <u>league of genocidist executioners</u> on the ground in
Nigeria and their centrally actuating constituent </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> pan</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">-African n</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">ations’ accomplices – </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Yoruba, Gwari, Jukun, Jawara, Kanuri, Tiv, Edo, Nupe, Hausa, Urhobo, Bachama</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> – </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">have
indeed unleashed a half of century of unmitigated savagery on Igbo people,
unprecedented in African history. Co-genocidist Britain, beginning with Prime
Minister Harold Wilson on 29 May 1966, couldn’t have bargained for less in
constructing such a ghoulish slaughtering coalition with its steadfast Nigerian allies.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Okigbo wouldn’t rest on his laurels, though, in response to
challenge and overcome what is undoubtedly a clear, conscious, beastly-scripted
and targetedly-driven juggernaut to destroy the Igbo, one of the world’s very talented
peoples. Okigbo, who believes in the power of words, would head for his
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<span style="background: white;">HISTORY testifies that the quest for human
freedom is not often an engagement pursued over just one season. For many, and
the Igbo appear to be incorporated in this group, it is rather much more
painfully drawn out; it could entail a cast of over several, long seasons. This
trajectory, therefore, inevitably, encapsulates its vivid vicissitudes of pain,
grief, opportunities, turmoil, setbacks, triumphs, turmoil, grief, opportunities,
breakthrough. What is at stake here is for a more focused, more steadfast, and
a more enduring understanding of the huge tasks ahead. Surely this is music in
the ears of the resourceful and resilient Igbo people.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">The Igbo will defeat this half a century of
genocide. Unfailingly. The Igbo will rebuild their battered towns and villages
and economy – which was Africa’s fastest growing powerhouse on the eve of the
genocide. Unquestionably, the Igbo will restore their sovereignty. </span></span> </div>
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prevails most luminously. </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Okaa Omee</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The students are <u>Promise Nnalue</u>, <u>Vivian Okoye</u>, <u>Adaeze Onuigbo</u>, <u>Jessica Osita</u>, and <u>Nwabuaku Ossai</u>. Their team, Save-a-Soul, came top in the competition involving 9,000 girls from across 115 countries with their developed app,<i> FD-Detector</i>, which tackles fake pharmaceutical products in southwestcentral region of Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Save-a-Soul team had travelled to the US with their teacher and mentor, <u>Uchenna Onwuameagbu-Ugwu</u>, and beaten the group of 12 teams’ finalists which included the US, China and Spain to clinch their gold. </span><br />
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IGBO people <span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">can’t wait for Biafra</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s restoration of independence from the Anglo-Nigeria genocidist occupation (enforced since 13 January 1970) to open up unlimited opportunities of creativity and innovation for their young people, one of Africa</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">most precocious and hardworking. The opportunities are part of strategies crucially factored into the multitudinal transformative landscape that Biafra will project. </span><br />
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BRITAIN creates a predatory estate in southwestcentral Africa it unabashedly calls <u>Nigeria</u>, a name it concocted cavalierly from one of the derivatives of the racist, dehumanising <i>pan</i>-European-crafted
“n*****” epithet with edited part of word “area” added on
to <i>emphasise</i> the conquered African peoples’ domicility. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As part of its strategic calculations to effectuate its age-old obsessive drive to
control the destiny of African peoples in perpetuity, following its lead-role in centuries of the deportation and enslavement of Africans in the Americas, Britain then employs an
equally predatory and expansionist egregiously <u>anti-African</u> Fulani
islamists/jihadists, whose home is the Futa Djallon highlands, 1500 miles
to the northwest, to murder indigenous uncompromisingly republican Igbo
people at will in this longest and most devastating genocide of contemporary
history </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">– with <b>3.1 million</b> Igbo murdered, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970,
and<b> tens of thousands </b>of additional Igbo murdered, 13 January 1970-present day</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">. The latter includes the <b>3000</b> Igbo murdered since November 2015 by the regime of fiendish genocidist <u>Muhammadu Buhari</u> who was installed in power by <u>David Cameron</u>, ex-British prime minister, and <u>Barack Hussein Obama</u>, ex-US president, indeed first African-descent president in 233 years of the founding of the United States republic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">BRITAIN could not have found itself in a more ecstatic bliss in March 2015 when this African-descent US president openly supported the genocide against Igbo people that it had prosecuted so unrelentingly with co-genocidist Fulani-led Nigeria for </span></span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>49 years</b> – since 29 May 1966</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">. <u>Barack Hussein Obama</u></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">’s </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">unconscionable support of the Igbo genocide is the abominable legacy of his presidency. </span></div>
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For the Igbo, the resistance and overcoming from co-genocidists Britain & Nigeria are undoubtedly
existential. Clearly, the Igbo are the authors of their freedom which,
thankfully, 53 years later, is on the cards. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Neither Britain nor Nigeria nor, indeed, any other power can stop Igbo freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">AS Britain cannot now fail to note, Biafra</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">restoration-of-independence <b>predates its own</b> Brexit “self-determination” (<u>Theresa May</u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s [ex-British prime minister] quote in letter to <u>Donald Tusk</u>, EU president, 29 March 2017) </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">quest by <b>50 years</b>. </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">The </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“self-determination” (</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“self-determination” is an inalienable right for <b>every</b> people, recognised by the UN) </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">that Britain now seeks from the <u>European Union</u> is the same </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“self-determination” </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">that Biafra has sought from the <u>Anglo-Nigeria Union</u> since 29 May 1966. Unlike its experience from the European Union, Britain has unleashed a genocide on the Igbo in the past 53 years to stop the latter</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">goal of </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“self-determination”. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Clearly, </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Britain cannot continue to live a lie of some </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“civilised” state at a time it has spent 53 years carrying out the gruesome genocide against Igbo people, one of the world</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">’s </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">most democratic and resourceful peoples, steadfastly allied in this campaign with its co-executing Fulani jihadists who British anthropology would otherwise dismiss as </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“primitive” and </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">“retrogressive”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">IGBO FREEDOM from this Nigeria haematophagous monster, presently in its death throes,
is the </span><b style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">great African story</b><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> of the 21st century. Igbo will </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">build, reconstruct, embark on all
possibilities of working for themselves and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">appropriating</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> the
fruits of their labour from their land and on their own terms.</span><br />
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<br />Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-23601218916502698932019-08-01T13:15:00.001-07:002019-08-09T06:01:53.107-07:00Biafran ingenuity unstoppable: Chizobam Stephany Ugboaja and Chukwuemeka Favour Alozie from Biafra are top students of the 2019 West Africa School Certificate Certificate Examination results just released<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">DESPITE the ongoing Igbo genocide,
the longest and most gruesome in contemporary history, executed on the ground in
Biafra by the Nigeria military and its duo-terrorist adjuncts Fulani militia
and Boko Haram (2 of the 5 deadliest terrorist organisations in the world
presently), despite the occupation of Biafra by Nigeria since 13 January 1970, despite
Nigeria’s state of siege imposed over all of Biafra since 13 January 1970,
despite Britain’s instrumentalist coordinating role of this genocide by
successive governments since <u>Harold Wilson</u>’s in May 1966, very hardworking
Igbo students have consistently exercised a stellar performance over Nigerian
students in all key categories of the education enterprise – from infant/primary to
university/other tertiary.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">In this 2019 West Africa School
Certificate Examination, </span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>Chizobam Stephany Ugboaja</b> (Jesuit Memorial
College, Igwe Ocha, south Biafra) and <b>Chukwuemeka Favour Alozie</b> (</span><span style="background: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">Marist Brothers Juniorate, Uturu, east Biafra)</span><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;"> came first and second, respectively, out of the total 1.6 million
students examined. Ugboaja scored an “A1” or “distinction” in each of the nine
subjects she entered for while Alozie scored eight “A1”s from his own nine
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<span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">IGBO youths constitute </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10pt;">one of</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:place style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19.2pt;" u1:st="on">Africa</st1:place>’s
best-developed multidisciplinary humanpower conglomeration of assets.
Igbo people <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">can’t wait for </span>the restoration of the independence of Biafra to
open up continents of creativity and transformation for its young people that will have tremendous impact across the African World and the rest of humanity.<br />
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04204260817827707145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070859996280139934.post-17876948972492521742019-07-24T11:50:00.000-07:002019-07-24T15:45:13.716-07:00Congratulations Boris Johnson!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">CONGRATULATIONS Mr Johnson on a well-deserved win! I hope that under your leadership, the
<b>restoration of Biafra independence</b> will be of high priority.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(<b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sonny Rollins Quintet</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, “Decision” [personnel: </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;">Rollins</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, tenor saxophone, <b>Donald Byrd</b>, trumpet; <b>Wynton Kelly</b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, piano; </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;">Gene Ramey</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, bass; </span><b style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 13.3333px;">Max Roach</b><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 13.3333px;">, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 16 December 1956])</span></blockquote>
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