106th birthday of Louis Mbanefo

(Born 13 May 1911, Onicha, Biafra)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ERUDITE human rights lawyer, distinguished international jurist at the International Court of Justice, The Hague, 1962-1966 during which he sets up the defining international legal protocols that ensure the restoration-of-independence for African peoples in Namibia from the European World occupation; Biafran chief justice and ambassador extraordinary in the resistance government against the Igbo genocide, one of the leading intellectuals who defends the people throughout the duration of phases I-III of this genocide by Nigeria and its suzerain state Britain led by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the foundational genocide of post-(European) conquest Africa, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, in which 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population are murdered; Justice Mbanefo possesses that distinct scholar’s contemplative persona that has come to define the insistent resilience of the Biafra freedom movement

(John Coltrane Quintet, “Brasilia” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live, at The Village Vanguard, New York, US, 1-3 & 5 November 1961])

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67th birthday of Thomas Sankara

(Born 21 December 1949, Yako, Burkina Faso)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Military commander, historian, and head of state of Burkina Faso, 4 August 1983-15 October 1987, when he leads a transformative government in “post”-(European)conquest Africa which demonstrates, overwhelmingly with indelible successes, just as the resourceful Biafran resistance had breathtakingly inaugurated this breakthrough on the Africa continental scene during the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III, that the engine of societal development is located internally, in the people, themselves – not the prevailing and pervasive fraudulent developmentalism unleashed on Africa in the 1960s by the same France, Britain/other lead European World conqueror-states that had for 400 years enslaved, dispersed, occupied and immiserised Africa and its peoples; thus, Thomas Sankara’s and Biafra’s historic liberatory legacies of transformative outreaches emanating internally, not externally, forged so tenaciously, constitute contemporary Africa’s freedom path to the restoration of unfettered independence from continuing European World seizure via the latter’s imposition of local client states and overseers, enhanced expropriation, and hardly disguised impunity

(Sam Rivers Trio, “Afflatus” [personnel: Rivers, tenor saxophone; Cecil McBee, bass; Steve Ellington, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 17 March 1967])

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