89th birthday of Bede Okigbo

(Born 29 September 1929, Ojoto, Biafra)

AGRONOMIST, one of Africa’s preeminent agricultural scientists, cousin of economist Pius Okigbo and poet Christopher Okigbo, distinguished head of the Biafra land directorate who works indefatigably to boost food production throughout the country in response to the British and Nigeria Fulani-led state’s expansively monstrous land, sea and aerial siege of the Biafran population (31 March 1967-12 January 1970), unprecedented in African history and the likes of which Africa hasn’t witnessed since, during the Igbo genocide by Anglo-Nigeria when the duo-genocidists murder 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of their population in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa
(Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe)

(Max Roach & Anthony Braxton, “Birth” [personnel: Roach, drums; Braxton, reeds; recorded: Ricordi Studios, Milan, Italy, 7 September 1978])

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