Reminiscences: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, general of the people’s resistance, highlights grounding statistics on Biafra during phase-II of the genocide, 30 May 1967

(General of the people’s resistance)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu: “They call us a dot on the map, and nobody’s sure quite where. Inside that dot were 700 lawyers, 500 physicians, 300 engineers, 8 million poets, 2 novelists of the first rank, and God knows what else – about one-third of all [African] intellectuals in Africa. Some dot. Those intellectuals had once fanned out all over Nigeria … where they had been envied and lynched and massacred. So they retreated to their homeland, to the dot.” (30 May 1967) (added emphasis)

(colossus on the map)

(John Coltrane Quartet, “The promise” [personnel: Coltrane, soprano saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live at Birdland, New York, US, 8 October 1963])

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