In this week that Biafra commemorates the 52nd anniversary of the genocidist invasion of its country by Nigeria and Britain or these dual-genocidist states’ launch of phase-III of the Igbo genocide, a reminder of Igbo people’s vanguard mission in contemporary history

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

BEGINNING in the early 1930s to October 1960, the Igbo nation played the vanguard role in the campaign for restoration-of-independence to terminate 100 years of the British conquest and occupation of the multiplicity of states and peoples of southwestcentral Africa region which the conqueror contemptuously tagged “Nigeria” – the “n*****” area/land.

Britain responded with the genocide of the Igbo and employed its Fulani islamist/jihadist client-operatives on the ground, inveterately anti-African throughout their history and who consequently opposed the restoration-of-independence drive, to enforce this mass murder, this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. For Britain, this genocide to destroy Igbo people, one of Africa’s most talented and enterprising peoples, is its envisaged path, in the post 1939-1945 war epoch, to control the lives and fortunes of African peoples indefinitely. 

The Anglo-Nigeria dual genocidists slaughtered 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population during the course of 44 months, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III of the genocide. Tens of thousands additional Igbo have been murdered subsequently, phase-IV (beginning 13 January 1970), including the 3000 murdered by the fiendishly rabid Muhammadu Buhari regime since November 2015. Buhari had been installed in power in March 2015 by ex-US President Barack Hussein Obama, the first African-descent president in 233 years of the founding of the United States republic, and David Cameron, ex-British prime minister. Obama’s unconscionable support of the Igbo genocide is his ignoble presidential legacy.

THE Igbo have not only survived the genocide but are now in the vanguard to restore Biafra independence, the African peoples-centred state that at once effectuates African control of its destiny not seen for centuries and the collapse of the Anglo/European World anti-African “Berlin-states” or constellation of EuroConqueror league states dotted across Africa or the Nigéríanãs-of-inconsequence.

(John Coltrane Quartet, “Dusk-Dawn” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewoods Cliff, NJ, US, 16 June 1965])

******Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe’s recently published books on the Igbo genocide are The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)

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