Friday, 18 October 2013

What census? In Nigeria?

Harold Smith, ex-official of the British conquest and occupation regime in Lagos, Nigeria, has written:

“The British loved the North and had arranged for 50% of the votes to be controlled by the Northern 
People’s Congress ... Because of this, independence was to some extent a sham because the results were a foregone conclusion. The North and the British would continue to rule" – from Harold Smith, "How the British undermined democracy in Africa”.

On the Northern People’s Congress, Harold Smith notes: 

“[NPC was] largely a creation of the British and hardly a normal political party in the accepted sense. It was funded by the British controlled [local government] Authorities and was quite simply a tool of the 
British administration” – Smith, "How the British undermined democracy in Africa”.

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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

75th birthday of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti

(Born 15 October 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria)
Afro-beat musician, bandleader and one of the most consistent and expansive critics of regimes in post-Igbo genocide age of pestilence Nigeria, employing the evocative lyrics of his compositions and the operatic drive of his orchestra to assail genocidist generals and colonels and financiers and politicians and their cohorts who control and wheel and deal in the kakistocratic lair that is Nigeria

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Friday, 11 October 2013

94th birthday of Art Blakey

(Born 11 October 1919, Pittsburgh, PA, US)
Prodigious drummer and bandleader whose band, The Jazz Messengers, cofounded with pianist Horace Silver in 1954, becomes a conservatory for over 30 years, developing the careers of  scores of graduates who would subsequently contribute immensely to the landscape of improvisation and composition in the jazz repertoire – messengers’ alumni include the following, grouped by their key performing instrument: trumpet (Clifford Brown, Donald Bryd, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard), trombone (Curtis Fuller, Julian Priester, Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Robin Eubanks), alto saxophone (Lou Donaldson, Jackie McLean, Bobby Watson, Donald Harrison), tenor saxophone (Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Wayne Shorter, John Gilmore, Billy Harper, Bill Pierce, Javon Jackson, Jean Toussaint, Branford Marsalis), piano (Horace Silver, Kenny Drew, Walter Davis, Jr., Benny Green, Wynton Kelly, Bobby Timmons, Jaki Byard, Keith Garrett, Cedar Walton, John Hicks, Mulgrew Miller, James Williams), and bass (Doug Watkins, Wilbur Ware, Spanky DeBrest, Jymie Merritt, Reggie Workman, Charles Fambrough, Lonnie Plaxico, Essiet Okon Essiet) 

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Thursday, 10 October 2013

96th birthday of Thelonious Monk

(Born 10 October 1917, Rocky Mount, NC, US)
Perspicacious pianist and composer whose seminal works include a range of contributions to the jazz repertory standards, with his “Round Midnight” being the most recorded standard of all time

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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

107th birthday of Léopold Sédar Senghor

(Born 9 October 1906, Joal, Sénégal) 
One of the most outstanding poets of the African World, academic and race and culture theorist, statesperson, first African president of Sénégal in September 1960, following the termination of 300 years of the French conquest and occupation, who lays the foundation for transforming the country to Africa’s most successful nations-state

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Tuesday, 1 October 2013

53rd birthday of Esiaba Irobi

(Born 1 October 1960, Aba, Igboland)

Distinguished dramatist (“Nwokedi”, “Hangmen also Die”,  “Cemetery Road”), poet, essayist, academic


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Nigeria Tuesday 1 October 2013 – Celebrating? What?

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