Igbo insist

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

BRITAIN creates a predatory estate in southwestcentral Africa it unabashedly calls Nigeria, a name it concocted cavalierly from one of the derivatives of the racist, dehumanising pan-European-crafted “n*****” epithet with edited part of word “area” added on to emphasise the conquered African peoples’ domicility. 

Igbo people

As part of its strategic calculations to effectuate its age-old obsessive drive to control the destiny of African peoples in perpetuity, following its lead-role in centuries of the deportation and enslavement of Africans in the Americas, Britain then employs an equally predatory and expansionist egregiously anti-African Fulani islamists/jihadists, whose home is the Futa Djallon highlands, 1500 miles to the northwest, to murder indigenous uncompromisingly republican Igbo people at will in this longest and most devastating genocide of contemporary history – with 3.1 million Igbo murdered, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, and tens of thousands of additional Igbo murdered, 13 January 1970-present day. The latter includes the 3000 Igbo murdered since November 2015 by the regime of fiendish genocidist Muhammadu Buhari who was installed in power by David Cameron, ex-British prime minister, and Barack Hussein Obama, ex-US president, indeed first African-descent president in 233 years of the founding of the United States republic. 

BRITAIN could not have found itself in a more ecstatic bliss in March 2015 when this African-descent US president openly supported the genocide against Igbo people that it had prosecuted so unrelentingly with co-genocidist Fulani-led Nigeria for 49 years – since 29 May 1966.  Barack Hussein Obama’s unconscionable support of the Igbo genocide is the abominable legacy of his presidency. 

Freedom

For the Igbo, the resistance and overcoming from co-genocidists Britain & Nigeria are undoubtedly existential. Clearly, the Igbo are the authors of their freedom which, thankfully, 53 years later, is on the cards. 

Neither Britain nor Nigeria nor, indeed, any other power can stop Igbo freedom. 

AS Britain cannot now fail to note, Biafra’s restoration-of-independence predates its own Brexit “self-determination” (Theresa May’s [ex-British prime minister] quote in letter to Donald Tusk, EU president, 29 March 2017) quest by 50 years. The “self-determination” (“self-determination” is an inalienable right for every people, recognised by the UN) that Britain now seeks from the European Union is the same “self-determination” that Biafra has sought from the Anglo-Nigeria Union since 29 May 1966. Unlike its experience from the European Union, Britain has unleashed a genocide on the Igbo in the past 53 years to stop the latter’s goal of “self-determination”. 

Clearly, Britain cannot continue to live a lie of some “civilised” state at a time it has spent 53 years carrying out the gruesome genocide against Igbo people, one of the world’s most democratic and resourceful peoples, steadfastly allied in this campaign with its co-executing Fulani jihadists who British anthropology would otherwise dismiss as “primitive” and “retrogressive”.

IGBO FREEDOM from this Nigeria haematophagous monster, presently in its death throes, is the great African story of the 21st century. Igbo will build, reconstruct, embark on all possibilities of working for themselves and appropriating the fruits of their labour from their land and on their own terms.

(John Coltrane Duo, “Jupiter (variation)” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bells; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Geldar Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 22 February 1967)

*****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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