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Acclaimed lyricist, actress, freedom quest exemplar, plays central role in Max Roach Decatet’s classic composition, We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960)
(Max Roach Sextet featuring Abbey Lincoln, “All Africa” [personnel: Roach, drums; Lincoln, vocals; Booker Little, trumpet; Michael Olatunji, congas, vocals; Raymond Mantilla, percussion; Tomas du Vall, percussion; recorded: Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, New York, US, 31 August/6 September 1960)
BBC News (Tuesday 15 December 2015): “Saudis announce
anti-terrorism coalition”
FOX News (Tuesday 15 December 2015): “Saudi Arabia announces
anti-terror alliance of Islamic nations”
According to each of these two news channels, 34 countries in the Middle
East, Asia and Africa have agreed to join this “Islamic military alliance” to “fight
terrorism with a joint operations” centre based in Riyadh, Saudi capital.
The
34 countries listed “are also part of the larger Organization of Islamic
Corporation, which is headquartered in Saudi Arabia” (FOX). Twenty African
countries cited as members of this alliance are: Benin, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon,
Guinea, Ivory Coast [Côte d’Ivoire], Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger,
Nigeria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia
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Question
(1): Who/Which is islamic state in Africa?
Question (2): Do the publics/constituentnations’ populations in each of these
listed African countries know that their regimes have signed them up to this “Islamic
military alliance”?
Question (3): What due democratic processes occurred in these
countries (within elected bodies, constituentnations’organisations/representatives, women, youth,
etc., etc) before any of these “listed
states” joined this “Islamic military alliance”?
Question (4): Who made the final decision in the “listed [African] states”to join this “Islamic military alliance”? Why? When?
Question (5): Are states Benin, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Sierra
Leone, Togo“islamic states”? Since when? How? Why?
Question
(6):
Are states Benin,
Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo members of “Organization
of Islamic Corporation”? Since when? Why? Question (7): According to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s “Global Terror Index 2015”, Nigeria, one of the members of this “Islamic military alliance”, currently harbours the world’s most ruthless terrorist organisation (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-17/global-terrorism-index-increase/6947200, accessed 17 November 2015). Would this “Islamic military alliance” be confronting the organisation in its Nigeria, fellow member-state? How?
(Max Roach Quintet, featuring Abbey Lincoln, “All Africa” [personnel: Roach, drums; Lincoln, vocals; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Coleridge Perkinson, piano; Eddie Khan, bass; recorded: Belgian television, January{?}1964])
Acclaimed lyricist, actress, freedom quest exemplar, plays central role in Max Roach Decatet’s classic album, We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960)
(Max Roach Quintet, featuring Abbey Lincoln, “All Africa” [personnel: Roach, drums; Lincoln, vocals; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Coleridge Perkinson, piano; Eddie Khan, bass; recorded: Belgian television, January{?}1964])
Acclaimed
lyricist, actress, human rights activist, plays central role in Max Roach
Decatet’s classic album, We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite (1960) Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa’s current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).
