Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led genocidist Nigeria – cataclysmic legacy of an African state run by Africans, not Europeans, that exists largely to slaughter the Igbo, an African people of Biafra

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Haunting timeframe

1. IGBO genocide – foundational genocide of post(European)conquest state, carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists-led Nigeria beginning 29 May 1966 to present day

(a) phases I-III, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970: 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of Igbo population slaughtered in Biafra and in regions across Nigeria

(b) phase IV, 13 January 1970 - present day: tens of thousands of Igbo slaughtered across Nigeria and in occupied Biafra including the attack by the raging genocidists just a couple of weeks ago of the family home of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, in Afaraukwu-Ibeku (eastcentral Biafra), in which scores of Igbo were slaughtered and scores of others unaccounted for since. The whereabouts of Kanu himself and parents are still unknown since this attack.

2. IGBO pogrom: carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists in Jos northcentral Nigeria, June 1945 – massacres of hundreds of Igbo immigrant populations and the looting and/or destruction of their property worth tens of thousands of (British) pounds. No one was ever prosecuted by the regime for planning or participating in those massacres.

3. IGBO pogrom: carried out by Hausa-Fulani/islamists in Kano, north Nigeria, May 1953 – massacres of hundreds of Igbo immigrant populations and the looting and/or destruction of their property worth tens of thousands of (British) pounds. No one was ever prosecuted by the regime for planning or participating in those massacres.

*****[]Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria has murdered more Africans in Biafra, southwestcentral Africa, since 1945 than the total number of Africans murdered in Africa since 1900 by all of Europe’s conqueror-powers in Africa: Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain – including the number of Africans the Germans murdered in the genocide of the Herero, Nama and Berg Damara peoples of southwest Africa (1904-1907).

*****[]Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria now rates a not-too-distant second to Belgian King Leopold II’s notorious position as Lead Génocidaire of African Peoples Since the 19th Century in the Leopold II/Belgian state’s genocide against Africans in the central regions of the Congo River basin (1878-1908).

**********[][]African peoples (particularly those on continental Africa, Europe and the Americas) on the whole remain morbidly silent over the Igbo genocide by this African genocidist agent, Hausa-Fulani-led Nigeria... It is not inconceivable that there would have been a different presentation and outcome of this history if the primary genocidist agent here were, for instance, European...

(Mal Waldron Quartet, “Hymn from the inferno” [personnel: Waldron, piano; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Cecil McBee, bass; Dannie Richmond, drums; recorded: Vanguard Studios, New York, US, 15 August 1981])

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Mid-2016 thoughts for the weekend… Does African life really matter?

Why are African peoples more than any other part of humanity in today’s world more likely and readily and ruthlessly murdered by the police or other armed agents of the state in innumerable towns and cities across the globe including, especially, Igwe-Ocha, Tulsa, Onicha, New York, Enuugwu, Orlando, Aba, Omaha, Baton Rouge, Uzo-Uwani, Jacksonville, Asaba, Nairobi, Dallas, Owere, Bujumbura, Minnesota, San Francisco, Columbus, Nkpo, Oklahoma City, Ubulu-Ukwu, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Chicago, Umuahia, Los Angeles, Oka…?

(John Coltrane Quartet, “Alabama” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, McCoy Tyner, piano; Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Jazz Casual [Ralph Gleason], National Educational Television, KQED Studios, San Francisco, US, 1 November 1963])

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Anambra way forward

The Igbo people of Anambra administrative region must be congratulated for charting the distinguishing pathway to progress. They had a largely peaceful election for the position of governor last Saturday – 6 February. No comparable peaceful poll has been recorded anywhere else in Igboland and Nigeria since 1999. No single individual, elector or candidate, was hurt throughout Anambra’s momentous day; no property, private or public, destroyed, and the electorate reelected the candidate of their choice, incumbent governor Peter Obi. The overwhelming majority of Obi’s fellow contestants have since accepted the result – yet another unprecedented development. All these have occurred despite the depressive sociopolitical realities of the occupation, despite the legendary corruption and incompetence of the Nigeria electoral commission, despite the occupation’s threats to rig in another executive impostor on the people.

The liberatory politics and restoration of sovereignty of the Igbo and by extension African peoples no doubt moved onto a new threshold on 6 February 2010. Surely, the human quest for advancement is unstoppable.