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Sunday, 13 November 2016

In this week of the 86th birthday of the Father of African Literature, we recall that enduring conversation at the African Literature Association conference in Gainesville, Florida, United States (9 April 1980) between two of the foremost intellectuals of the African Atlantic: Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin (Maria Popova, “James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe”, brainpickings, 24 September 2014)

(James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe: … African Atlantic discourses, Gainesville, Florida, US, 9 April 1980…)
...Reflections on history, art, politics, brainpickings, 22 September 2014,
(https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/21/james-baldwin-chinua-achebe-art/), accessed 28 September 2014

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Labels: 9 April 1980, African Atlantic discourses, art, brain pickings, Chinua Achebe, Father of African Literature, Gainesville Florida US, history, James Baldwin, Maria Popova, politics, reflections
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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).
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