(Born 25 December 1920, Umuahia, Igboland)
Physician and irrepressible advocate of harnessing Africa’s vast agricultural
resource potential as launch base to embark on far-reaching societal transformation,
head of pre-military junta 15 January 1966 east region Nigeria government, then
home to Africa’s most resourceful and dynamic economy en route to emerging as a
major manufacturing and industrial power, in its own right, but for the
catastrophe of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January, when Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain, murder 3.1 million Igbo people in this foundational genocide of
post-(European)conquest Africa
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
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