Showing posts with label 3.1m Igbo people or 25 per cent of Igbo population. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3.1m Igbo people or 25 per cent of Igbo population. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 September 2017

5th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country

(Published 27 September 2012, Penguin, LondonBritain)
Father of African Literature’s incomparable memoirs on the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970 (phases I-III), when Nigeria and its suzerain state Britain, under the primeministership of Harold Wilson, murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population

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