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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe FIRST mathematics doctorate in Biafra/countries in southwestcentral Africa, rigorous academic and public intellectual, aptly described by Biafran theoretical physicist Alexander Obiefoka Animalu as the “foremost African mathematical genius of the 20th century”
(McCoy Tyner Quartet, “Contemplation” [personnel: Tyner, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 April 1967])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)
(Nnamdi Kanu: ... leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and freedom broadcaster, Radio Biafra)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
AS US President Barack Hussein Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are soon to implement their infamous joint programme to impose genocidist operative Muhammadu Buhari as head of regime in Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, makes the following broadcast on Radio Biafra, 6 February 2014, on the consequences of this plan on the people of Biafra:
… [T]o elevate Hausa-Fulani supremacy, to reposition the security agencies by sacking all competent hands and replace them with their [people] to drive their … domination of the Biafrans; the Fulani herdsmen will be armed and encouraged to slaughter us with impunity and their masters will protect them. They are coming to ensure that my people are enslaved forever. Those who do not … believe me … will soon see it happen before their eyes...
(McCoy Tyner Quartet, “Contemplation” [personnel: Tyner, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 April 1967])
(Nnamdi Kanu: ... leader of Indigenous People of Biafra and freedom broadcaster, Radio Biafra)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
AS US President Barack Hussein
Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are soon to implement their infamous
joint programme to impose genocidist operative Muhammadu Buhari as head of
regime in Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, makes
the following broadcast on Radio Biafra, 6 February 2014, on the consequences
of this plan on the people of Biafra:
… [T]o elevate Hausa-Fulani supremacy, to reposition the security agencies
by sacking all competent hands and replace them with their [people] to drive
their … domination of the Biafrans; the Fulani herdsmen will be armed and
encouraged to slaughter us with impunity and their masters will protect them.
They are coming to ensure that my people are enslaved forever. Those who do not
… believe me … will soon see it happen before their eyes...
(McCoy Tyner Quartet, “Contemplation” [personnel: Tyner, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 April 1967])
WHO is this? Who indeed is “person of colour”? Would they also be termed
“coloured person”? If not, why not?
No one should ever toy with their identity, their history – particularly
African peoples, especially those domiciled in the pan-European World. Crucially, in this geographical space, as well as in the Arab World, the cardinal constructs of African identity have in the past been expunged in stretches of robust
state/quasi-state programmes aimed primarily to deny or distort the saliency of the African
presence.
This is why a person who presents themself, for instance, as African
British, African American, African Caribbean, Igbo British, Ethiopian American, Congolese French, Biafran German, Jamaican Canadian, etc., etc., actuates a presence unmistakeably that references or resonates with
history. In contrast, employing a dehistoricised expression/epithet in
referencing someone, however expedient, even fanciful, questions that person’s presence and
surely accelerates their slide to quite often tragic alienation. ALWAYS insist on who you are. This is
not the responsibility of somebody else’s.
(McCoy Tyner Quartet, “Contemplation” [personnel: Tyner, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 April 1967])
(Born 11 December 1938, Philadelphia, United States)
ONE OF THE most influential pianists of the 20th century, occupies the piano chair of the classic John Coltrane Quartet(full personnel: Coltrane, tenor and soprano saxophones; Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums), 1960-1965, and subsequently records own key signature albums (The Real McCoy, Time for Tyner, Extensions, Tender Moments, Sahara, Blues for Coltrane, plays John Coltrane at The Village Vanguard, Remembering John, Revelations, Infinity, 44th Street Suite, Illuminations, Expansions, Live in Warsaw, Round Midnight, Soliloquy, plays Duke Ellington, Today and Tomorrow, Nights of Ballads and Blues, Love and Peace, Land of the Giants) in varying group contexts such as trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, nonets, big band, solo
(McCoy Tyner Quartet, “Contemplation” [personnel: Tyner, piano; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Ron Carter, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 April 1967])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).
