89th anniversary of ogu umu nwanyi Igbo or Igbo women-organised and led resistance against the British conquest and occupation of Biafra – the organisational feat involved in this challenge is a precursor to some of the tactical calculations being employed with astounding success currently by the resilient Biafra freedom movement’s restoration-of-independence mission against the genocidist Nigeria occupation

(Resistance begins 23 November 1929, Aba, Biafra)

WITH the initial mobilisation of 10,000 women which soon expands to 25,000 and joined by women from Ibibioland, Igbo women in Aba and its contiguous provinces, including Igwe Nga (Opobo) and Umu Ubani (Bonny), embark on a 2-month historic resistance against the oppressively expansive stretch of 50 years of the British conquest, paralysing the occupation regime and its myriad institutions of plunder in much of the east, central and southern regions of Biafra consequently; the occupation troops murder 55 members of the freedom movement during the course of the resistance
(Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe)

(Alice Coltrane Trio, “Lovely sky boat” [personnel: Coltrane, harp;  Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York, US, 6 June 1968]) 

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of Biafra Revisited (2006) and author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)

(https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Donald-Trump-great-Africa-ebook/dp/B07KFQHXKV/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1542585950&sr=8-1)

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