Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
SPARK of enduring Biafran creative energy!
Celebrated cultural and literary critic and executive editor of The Guardian, Lagos, Nigeria, beginning February 1983, when he embarks on the radical transformation of the focus and scope and qualitative threshold of journalism practice not seen in Africa’s southwestcentral region in 50 years – since the edifying standard set for post-(European)conquest Africa journalism by Nnamdi Azikiwe, political scientist, academic, poet, journalist, multiform entrepreneur, leader in Igbo vanguard role in the drive for restoration of independence for the African peoples and states in this region (mid-1930s-October 1960) which the British conquest and occupation had contemptuously called “Nigeria”…
BIAFRA is on the way back to continue the liberatory project disrupted so viciously by this longest genocide in contemporary history: to teach basic lessons on resolve and competence, to overcome challenges, to exercise transformative initiatives, to affirm life, African life, as sacrosanct, particularly given 52 years of Fulani islamist/jihadist-controlled genocidist Nigeria and its (especially) Yoruba/Edo/Hausa/Urhobo/Nupe/Edo/Tiv allies’ programmed savagery to destroy the lives of 50 million Igbo people.
(Max Roach Quartet, “Speak, Brother, Speak!” [sides I and II; personnel: Roach, drums; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Mal Waldron, piano; Eddie Khan, bass; recorded live, The Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, US, 27 October 1962])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
