Depravity

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

IF ANYONE, anywhere in the world, ever doubted the sheer savagery of the Hausa-Fulani/islamist-led Nigeria genocidist military in its 51 years of campaign to destroy the resourceful and resilient Igbo people of Biafra, the internet and other media are deluged, presently, with awfully distressing videos, still shots and other recorded accounts of its ongoing scorched-earth operations in Biafra that capture its dreadful portraiture. This is an unrelentingly sustained terrorism in real time operation to overrun the Biafra freedom movement, the most peaceful of its kind in Africa and one of the very few in the South World, by a state’s military, not “non-state”, that immanently privileges its jihadist history and geography and worldview. This state and military are equipped and reequipped by Britain which created both for its service in perpetuity. 

As I have argued severally, the priority of the Biafra government on the morrow of the restoration-of-independence is to inaugurate the construction of a civilisation where Igbo life, human life, fundamentally, is sacrosanct. This salient feature cannot be overstressed, given the sickening pictures of Nigeria’s acts of depravity of recent days. Nigeria has been, for the Igbo, a haematophagous monster throughout its history. In contradistinction, Biafra is a realisation, a profound reclamation of that which makes us all human and part of humanity. 

BIAFRA is the beacon of the tenacity of the spirit of human-overcoming of the most desperate, unimaginably brutish Hausa-Fulani/islamist forces and all that they represent.

(John Coltrane & Don Cherry, “Focus on sanity” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Cherry, pocket trumpet; Percy Heath, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; recorded: Atlantic Studios, New York, US, 28 June/8 July 1960])

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