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One of the most outstanding leaders of the freedom movement in history
(Sonny Rollins Trio, “The freedom suite” [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 7 March 1958])
(part of the 16th Street Baptist Church Birmingham after the bombing...)
In this terrorist attack on 15 September 1963, described by Martin Luther Kingas “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity”, four girls are murdered and 22 other congregants sustain varying levels of injury
(John Coltrane Quartet, “Alabama” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, Jazz Casual Productions {host: Ralph Gleason}, 7 December 1963])
(part of the 16th Street Baptist Church Birmingham after the bombing)
In this terrorist attack on 15 September
1963, described by Martin Luther King as “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes
ever perpetrated against humanity”, four girls are murdered and 22 other
congregants sustain varying levels of injuries
(John
Coltrane Quartet, “Alabama”
[personnel: Coltrane, tenor
saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy
Garrison, bass; Elvin
Jones, drums; recorded:
live, Jazz Casual Productions {host: Ralph Gleason}, 7 December 1963])
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).
