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CONGRATULATIONS Mr Johnson on a well-deserved win! I hope that under your leadership, the
restoration of Biafra independence will be of high priority.
(Sonny Rollins Quintet, “Decision” [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone, Donald Byrd, trumpet; Wynton Kelly, piano; Gene Ramey, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 16 December 1956])
******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)
BRITAIN and FULANI alliance, this transcontinental genocidist dual-headed power configuration that has executed the Igbo genocide with such abiding ruthlessness and monstrosity these past 53 years, has ensured that Igbo people’s history of the past century challenges, quite dramatically, a range of key assumptions in post-conquest studies/“post-colonial” studies/discourses that centres on race, racism, power, viciousness, brigandage, worldview, conquest(s), geography, restoration-of-independence. Contests, collaboration Here, two conqueror-states, twoimperialisms, are initially in contests and later on in fulsome collaboration: British, from northwest Europe, and Fulani, from northwestcentral Africa, both on the prowl across this Africa’s central region in the 1800s ... Both soon, amicably, switch to relay ravages, post-1900, conquering state after state with catastrophic consequences for scores of constituent African peoples, laying the foundation where they ally most strategically, beginning 29 May 1966, in carrying out the Igbo genocide.
EARLIER on in 1945, about 50 years after the beginning of the British conquest and occupation of Igboland, the Fulani (whose home is the Futa Djallon highlands of northwestcentral Africa, 1500 miles away) in occupied north Nigeria embarked on the invasion of Igbo territorial spaces emplaced in the overarching architecture of the British occupation (in Jos, northcentral Nigeria) with the latter’s tactical (if not strategic) connivance. In effect, this attack, in which the Fulani unleashed a pogrom on the Igbo as the mode of invasion, formally inaugurated the Fulani-Britishdual-headed genocidist cabalthat would oversee the perpetration of yet another season of pogrom on the Igbo in 1953 (Kano, north Nigeria), and then launch the horrendously full-blown, extended and expansive Igbo genocide, beginning on 29 May 1966. DURING phases I-III of the genocide in the 44 subsequent months, the duo genocidists murdered 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population. Tens of thousands additional Igbo have been murdered in phase IV of the genocide, 13 January 1970-present day. These include the 3000 Igbo murdered since November 2015 by the regime of the findish génocidaire Muhammadu Buhari who was installed in power 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.
Existential It is precisely because of the very genocidist terror that undergirds the Anglo-Fulani alliance in the wake of the 1945 Fulani invasion of Igbo homes and other interests in Jos that the Igbo resistance to this catastrophe does not categorise any of these invaders as either “primary” or “secondary”, despite the sequence of the timeframe of the invasions and despite the nature of the contributing resources that each of the co-operative executioners of this crime against humanity deploys. FOR the Igbo, the grave existential challenges from both the British and Fulani in these past 74 years have occurred almost invariably in more fluid or composite frames.
(John
Coltrane Quintet,
“Stardust”[personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Wilbur Harden, fluegelhorn; Red
Garland, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobbs, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 11 July 1958])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is author of the recently published The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe *****EXCERPTSfrom the gripping and indelible lines on the Igbo genocide (29 May 1966-12 January 1970), the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, during which Britain and client-state Nigeria, led by Hausa-Fulani/islamist jihadists, southwestcentral Africa, murder 3.1 million Igbo people of Biafra, beginning 21 years after end of the Jewish genocide, in Leon Uri’s classic, QB VII (London: Bantam Books, 1970), pp. 392-393:
ABE studied them all, his worn-out little band of idealists.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” he said in a voice that literally moaned with sorrow, “I would like to make a statement by quoting in effect the words of Thomas Bannister, Q.C., when he said that no one in their wildest imaginations would have believed Hitler’s Germany before it actually happened. And he said, if the civilized world knew what Hitler intended to do then they would have stopped him. Well, here we are in 1967, and the Arabs vow daily to finish Hitler’s work. Certainly the world will not stand for another chapter of this holocaust. There is a right and a wrong. It is right for a people to want to survive. It is wrong to want to destroy them. But alas, the kingdom of heaven is concerned with righteousness alone. The kingdoms of the earth run on oil. Well now, certainly the world should be appalled by what is happening in Biafra. The stink of genocide is everywhere. Certainly, after Hitler’s Germany, the world should step in and stop genocide in Biafra. However, that becomes impractical when one considers England’s investments in Nigeria conflict with France’s interests in Biafra. After all, members of the jury, it is only [African] people killing other [African] people.
“We should like to think,” Abe said, “that Thomas Bannister was right, when he said more people, including the German people, should have risked punishment and death by refusing orders. We should like to believe there would have been a protest and ask why didn’t the Germans protest? Well today, young people march in the streets to protest Biafra and Vietnam and the principle of murdering their fellow man through the medium of war. And we say to them … why are you protesting so much? Why don’t you go there and kill like your father killed? …” (added emphasis)
(Eric Dolphy Duo, “Alone together” [personnel: Dolphy, bass clarinet; Richard Davis, double bass; recorded: Fuel Records, New York, US, {May?June?July?} 1963])
BRITAIN and
FULANI alliance, this genocidist transcontinental dual-headed power configuration that
has executed the Igbo genocide with such abiding ruthlessness and monstrosity
these past 52 years, has ensured that Igbo people’s history of the past century
challenges, quite dramatically, a range of key assumptions in “post-colonial”
discourses that centres on race and geography.
In 1945, about
50 years after the beginning of the British conquest and occupation of Igboland,
the Fulani in occupied north Nigeria, whose home is the Futa Djallon highlands of
northwest Africa, 1500 miles away, embarked on the invasion of Igbo
territorial spaces emplaced in the overarching architecture of the British
occupation (in Jos, northcentral Nigeria) with the latter’s tactical if not
strategic connivance. In effect, this attack, in which the Fulani unleashed a
pogrom on the Igbo as the mode of
invasion, formally inaugurated the dual-headed genocidist cabal that would
oversee the perpetration of yet another season of pogrom on the Igbo in 1953
(Kano, north Nigeria), and then launched the horrendously full-blown, extended and
expansive Igbo genocide, beginning on 29 May 1966. During phases I-III of the genocide in the 44 subsequent months, the duo genocidists murdered 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of the Igbo population. Tens of thousands additional Igbo have been murdered in phase IV of the genocide, 13 January 1970-present day.
IT IS precisely because of the very genocidist terror that undergirds the Anglo-Fulani
alliance in the wake of the 1945 Fulani invasion of Igbo homes and other
interests in Jos that the Igbo resistance to this catastrophe does not
categorise any of these invaders as either “primary” or “secondary”, despite the
sequence of the timeframe of the invasions and despite the nature of the
contributing resources that each of the co-operative executioners of this crime against
humanity deploys. For the Igbo, the grave existential challenges from both the British and Fulani in these
past 73 years have occurred almost invariably in more fluid or composite frames.
(John Coltrane Quintet, “Stardust”[personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Wilbur Harden, fluegelhorn; Red Garland, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobbs, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 11 July 1958])
THERE HAS BEEN a commendable worldwide criticism of the Myanmar
military for its operation in the country’s southwest Rakhine region where the
Rohingya people, predominantly muslim, live. Nearly 400,000 Rohingya have fled
to neighbouring Bangladesh to escape the increasing violence.
In contrast, the world has remained unconscionably silent over
the Nigeria genocidist military campaign in (occupied) Biafra where it has
murdered 2000 Biafrans since October 2015. The Nigeria state, created by
Britain, is headed by Hausa-Fulani/islamists and its military engaged in the
genocide in Biafra is led by a phalanx of senior islamist operatives. In the past
week alone, hundreds of Biafrans have been murdered in scorched-earth
operations mounted by the Nigerians who have laid siege on all Biafran cities
and towns (including especially Enuugwu, Onicha, Asaba, Oka, Aba, Orlu, Okigwe,
Owere, Igwe Ocha, Abakeleke, Umuahia, Owere, Afaraukwu-Ibeku) in response to
the Biafra freedom, restoration-of-independence movement. The Biafra freedom movement
is totally peaceful, the most peaceful of its kind in Africa and one of the
very few anywhere in the South World.
World stop Igbo genocide now
The world must now wake up from its inexcusable slumber over the
Igbo genocide and condemn genocidist Nigeria unreservedly. This condemnation
must also extend to Britain, the co-genocidist state in this crime right from
its original launch date on 29 May 1966, which is the principal exporter of the
array of weapons the Nigerian enforcers employ in their slaughter of the Igbo.
In this case, it is indeed not without significance that the current phase of
the genocide (beginning Sunday 10 September 2017) was mounted shortly after the
July/August 2017 visits to Nigeria by Tony Blair (a former British prime
minister) and Boris Johnson (current British foreign secretary).
THE WORLD must at once stop the Igbo genocide and the occupation
of Biafra and support the Biafra freedom movement’s programmed process of a referendum to determine the democratic choice
of 50 million Biafrans. All those involved in this crime against humanity, the
foundational genocide of post-(European) conquest Africa, must be arraigned and
prosecuted forthwith in designated international courts. The genocidists
murdered 3.1 million Igbo people, 25 per cent of the population during phases
I-III of the crime, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, and tens of thousands of additional
Igbo during phase-IV which has been ongoing since its launch date on 13 January
1970. The whereabouts of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of
Biafra, are presently unknown since the genocidists stormed his Afaraukwu-Ibeku
(east Biafra) family home yesterday (Thursday 14 September 2017), murdering a
yet undisclosed number of relatives and others therein and abducting his
parents.
(George Russell Sextet, “Nardis” {composer: Miles Davis}[personnel: Russell, piano;Don Ellis, trumpet;Dave Baker, trombone;Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet;Steve Swallow, bass;Joe Hunt, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, 8 May 1961])
TODAY, it is Ekwulobia,
west Biafra – genocidist occupation military, including navy detachments
(Ekwulobia is neither on the Biafra coast nor by a strategic river course in
Biafra!), open fire on peaceful, defenceless population of the Biafra
freedom movement, murdering at least one and wounding several ... detailed
casualty figures are still coming in... In this foundational genocide of
post-(European)conquest Africa, genocidist Nigeria has continued its
unrelenting murder of Igbo people, thanks to its embedded support from its
co-genocidist and suzerain state Britain...
ILLUSTRIOUS world middleweight and light-heavyweight boxing champion of the mid-1960s, Biafran ambassadeur extraordinaire during the Igbo genocide perpetrated jointly by Nigeria and Britain, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, when 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation’s population are slaughtered, proclaims, solemnly, to the world at the time: “Without Biafra, the championship title is no good to me. Without Biafra, my title is nothing” – Dick Tiger’s is an impressive legacy that
resonates most profoundly on the current phase of the Biafra freedom movement focused
on liberating Biafra from 47 years of the genocidist Nigeria occupation
(Andrew Hill Nonet, “Yesterday’s tomorrow” [personnel: Hill, piano; Dizzy Reece, trumpet; Woody Shaw, trumpet; Howard Johnson, tuba; Julian Priester, trombone; Robert Northern, french horn; Joe Farrell, reeds; Ron Carter, bass; Lenny White, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, Cliffs, NJ, US, 14 November 1969])
ON 6 JULY 1967, Nigeriaexpands the territorial range of its execution of the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, which it launched 14 months earlier, 29 May 1966, in different parts of Nigeria but especially in the north region, murdering 100,000 Igbo people (phases I&II). Now, it embarks on a land, air and sea-borne invasion of Biafra, the Igbo homeland, with the British government, under the leadership of Harold Wilson, playing the central role in the campaign (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-conquerors-concord-in.html). Indeed without British support, pointedly if not ironically 51 years before Brexit, the Igbo genocide, this crime against humanity, would probably not have occurred. This phase-III of the genocide stretches for 30 months during which 3 million Igbo are murdered. Harold Wilson coordinates the campaign from his offices and home at 10 Downing Street London, 3150 miles away from Biafra, facilitated on the ground in client-state Nigeria by Francis Cumming-Bruce, the British chief representative and proconsul. Cumming-Bruce liases expansively with key Nigerian genocidists in charge of the crime, right from the outset in May 1966, as well as the coterie of Hausa-Fulani/islamist north region emirs, politicians and other leading public figures who Britain had arbitrarily handed over supreme overseeing political authority in October 1960 to “manage” Nigeria on London’s behalf ad infinitum as part of a bogus independence settlement. These north region political forces had rigorously opposed the restoration of African independence which the Igbo had led for 30 years, beginning in the 1930s (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-conquerors-concord-in.html). For the British, the Igbo genocide is “punishment” for the Igbo for daring to spearhead the campaign to terminate the control of its Nigeria “rich-prized land”. At the apogee of the Igbo slaughtering in 1968, Wilson, himself, insists that he “would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” the Nigerian génocidairesto destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977: 122). In his memoirs published in 1971, Wilson reveals that the Nigerian military, equipped zealously by
Britain, expended more small arms ammunition in its campaign to
achieve its annihilative goal in Biafra than the amount used by
the British armed forces “during the whole” of the
Second World War (Harold Wilson, Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record,
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971: 630,
added emphasis). Britain’s Lagos (Nigeria) diplomatic mission military advisor Robert
Scott’s acknowledgement (at the height of the genocide, mid 1968- January
1970) that as the Nigerian genocidists unleashed their campaigns across
Igbo cities, towns and villages, they were the “best defoliant agent known” (Sunday
Telegraph, London, 11 January 1970) is equally gravely harrowing.
TO COMPLEMENT this stupendous British military investment in the mass murder of Igbo people, the BBC world service, that state broadcaster funded by the British foreign office, assumes the chief publicity role to “rationalise” the genocide to the world’s public. The BBC effectively becomes the external broadcasting corporation of the on-the-ground Nigerian prosecuting genocidists, displacing the rambling and ramshackle Voice of Nigeria, spewing out hate, racist and fraudulent features and analyses to discredit the Biafra freedom movement decades before the world’s attention is drawn to the realisation that fake news programming and broadcasts are an embodiment in the practices of quite a few news organisations (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/bbc-nationalists-or-secessionists.html). Definitive goal
Right from the outset as its invasion of Biafra is launched, genocidist Nigeria establishes on the ground and employs rape and abduction of Igbo girls and women and the public execution of Igbo boys and men as pivotal instruments in waging the campaign. Its ghoulish anthem of the genocide, broadcast uninterruptedly on state-owned Kaduna radio (shortwave transmission) and television and with editorial comments on the theme, regularly published in both state-ownedNew Nigerian(daily) newspaper and (Hausa) weeklyGaskiya Ta fi Kwaboduring the period, has these lyrics in Hausa:
Mu je mu kashe nyamiri Mu kashe maza su da yan maza su Mu chi mata su da yan mata su Mu kwashe kaya su (English translation: Let’s go murder the damned Igbo/Murder their men and boys/Rape their wives and daughters/Cart off their property)
This genocidist intent, particularly its empirically earmarked specifics, is unequivocally explicit and its overarching method sets the precedent of the savagery and barbarity that are the hallmarks of the genocide and subsequent genocides in Africa as Rwanda (1994), Darfur/Nuba Mountains/Blue Nile/South Kordofan (the Sudan, variously since 2004), and Democratic Republic of the Congo (since the late 1990s) attest.
AT THE HEIGHT of the Igbo genocide, beginning from the second-half of 1968 when thousands of Igbo children and older citizens die daily from starvation, one of the genocidist’s publicly-stated “weapons” in the prosecution of the crime as articulated by chief “theorist” Obafemi Awolowo himself, British Prime Minister Wilson as already stated, informs Clyde Ferguson (United States state department special coordinator for relief to Biafra) that he, Harold Wilson, “would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” the Nigerian génocidairesto destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide. Nigeria in fact ends up murdering 3 million Igbo – 2 and one-half million more than Wilson’s grim 500,000 Igbo-death wish.
(Harold Wilson:“would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”)
Furthermore, it is indeed a telling irony, given British support for Nigeria and the génocidaires’ strategy of rape and abduction of Igbo womanhood in Biafra, that it is in London, in June 2014, forty-seven years later, that the first international conference on “rape and sexual violence” in war, with emphasis on Africa (and particular focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo), is hosted by none other than the British government in which foreign secretary of state William Hague describes rape as “‘one of the great mass crimes’ of modern times” (BBC News, 10 June 2014).
(William Hague ... 47 years later: rape is “‘one of the great mass crimes’ of modern times”)
IN BIAFRA, beginning 6 July 1967, every Igbo town or village overrun by the Nigerian génocidaires becomes a gruesome milestone in an inexorable march of rape, death, and destruction: Obollo Afo ... Obollo Eke ... Enuugwu-Ezike ... Opi ... Ukehe … Nkalagu ... Owgwu ... Abakaleke … Eha Amuufu ... Nsukka ... Enuugwu ... Agbaani ... Asaba ... Ogwashi-Ukwu ... Isele-Ukwu ... Onicha-Ugbo …Agbo …Umunede ... Onicha ... Nkpo …Oka ... Aba ... Udi ... Ehuugbo ... Ehuugbo Road ... Okigwe ... Umuahia ... Owere ...Abagana ... Igwe Ocha ... Ahaoda ... Obiigbo ... Azumini ... Umu Ubani/Bonny ... Igwe Nga/Opobo ... Ugwuta ... Amasiri ... Akaeze ... Uzuakoli ... Clearly invokingNazi-style “search through population-round off-isolate-and-destroy”-tactics in overrun non-Igbo towns and cities such as Calabar, Oron, Ikot Ekpene, Uyo, Ogoja, Obubara, Obudu, Nkarasi and Eket, the genocidists meticulously profile Igbo nationals. Thousands of such profiled Igbo are shot at sight or marched off and later executed at city limits, forest firing-range sites, river banks, or at specifically dedicated genocidist-occupied barrack venues…
Incubation & manifestation
As contemporary Nigeria demonstrates, most graphically, as these lines are written, grounded genocidist advocates/“theorists”/operatives especially Obafemi Awolowo, Tony Enaharo, Hassan Katsina, Alison Ayida, Olusegun Obasanjo, Gbadomosi King, Umaru Dikko, Maitama Sule, Benjamin Adekunle, Muhammadu Buhari, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Muhammed, Yakubu Danjuma, Ibrahim Haruna and Ibrahim Taiwo are perhaps just coming to terms with the realisation that their thoughts and deeds have incubated within their very own and become hauntingly cyclical across generations – DNA signature. This is precisely why survivors from these purveyors of state-directed mass slaughter, such as the Igbo, for example, must keep well away from the latter’s tent. Boko Haram insurgents now ravaging swathes of territory across the north, northeast and northcentral and elsewhere in Nigeria are remarching along the paths first trodden by their parents/grandparents/greatgrandparents/Nigériãna-génocidaires, beginning 29 May 1966, 51 years ago to the day.
As for Nigeria’s genocide-prosecuting ally Britain, again 51 years to the day, it has, alas, caught up with Biafra, via Brexit, to engage, critically, with exercising its own right to self-determination – in this instance, to determine whether or not it wishes to be part of the supranational state called the European Union. Unlike the Biafrans, who, 51 years ago, exercised this same right but in staggeringly existential circumstances, Britain hasn’t sought Brexit from the European Union because it has been threatened or subjected to the crime of genocide by the latter nor indeed by any individual member state of the union such as Germany, Italy or France. On the contrary. Similarly, the 5 million constituent Scottish people in Britain do not, 51 years after Biafra, currently seek to exercise their right to self-determination from Britain because they have been threatened or subjected to the crime of genocide by Britain. Not at all. Just as the Biafrans, 51 years ago, the underlying awareness by the British, as a whole, collectively, or the Scots, separately, is that this right to self-determination is inalienable and its exercise by any people across the world is not dependent on prevailing circumstance(s). Biafra flag on the ascent So, despite the the unflinching 51 years of British support for the prosecution of the Igbo genocide, despite the sheer savagery of the Nigeria genocidist regime’s military murder of 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of the Igbo population during phases I-III of the genocide (29 May 1966-12 January 1970) and tens of thousands of additional Igbo during phase-IV (since 13 January 1970 and continuing) including the military/Boko Haram/Fulani militia
murders of 2000 Igbo people carried out across Biafra since October 2015 under the Muhammadu Buhari regime, despite the unconscionable support of the Igbo genocide by Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American president in 233 years of the US republic (https://www.pambazuka.org/human-security/obama-must-tell-world-why-he-supported-igbo-genocide), the Igbo have emerged even more focused, steadfast, resilient. They have converted their
strategic mission of Biafra independence restoration to a tactical tool which they employ
almost effortlessly here and there with exponential impact locally and
internationally. This is extraordinary. The Biafra Sun is on the ascent.
Any referendum conducted in Biafra presently on the restoration-of-independence
for this population of 50 million will result in a high 90 per cent score.
Biafrans now dictate the terms of this long drawn-out journey. Biafrans
are redefining the tenor of the march for freedom in Africa. They are reshaping African history in this great epoch of our time.
And the freedom movement has done it, in these past 20 months, it must be stressed, without firing a single shot – either in defence or offence.
(Andrew Hill Sextet, “Dedication” [personnel: Hill, piano; Kenny Dorham, trumpet; Eric Dolphy, bass clarinet; Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone; Richard Davis, bass; Tony Williams, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 21 March 1964])
ACCORDING to media reports from genocidist Nigeria, a
British royal air force detachment is in a north Nigeria airbase to “train”
genocidist forces – who would, in turn, head for Biafra, in due course, to
continue their slaughter of Igbo people as is now their notoriously
demonstrated definitive goal. Nigeria, supposedly, has been “independent” since October 1960
and, 57 years later, is still being “trained” by the same Britain! What a “state”! “Nigeria ‘train’ yourself”? Oh no! When will Nigeria begin to “train” itself? Didn’t Britain leave Nigeria 57 years ago? Of course not!
Nigeria is Britain’s, the British lead client-state in this strategic region of
southwestcentral Africa – emplaced, as Britain envisages, in perpetuity. This at the crux of the Igbo genocide which both Britain and
Nigeria, led by its anti-African freedom Hausa-Fulani/islamist religiopolitcal
forces, have waged since 29 May 1966. IGBO FREEDOM opens up immeasurable possibilities for liberation
of scores of African peoples trapped in this British expropriation estate.
Freedom peoples across the world can’t wait for this incoming epoch being inaugurated by Biafra.
(Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, “Free for all” [personnel: Blakey, drums; Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Curtis Fuller, trombone; Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone; Cedar Walton, piano; Reggie Workman, bass; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 10 February 1964])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Background of contrasts (Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the apogee of phase-III of Igbo genocide, 1968/1969, is totally unfazed as he informs Clyde Ferguson, the United States state department special coordinator for relief to this British-led premeditated mass murder campaign that had comprehensively besieged and was bombarding Biafra for 44 months, that he, Harold Wilson, “would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” the Fulani islamist/jihadist-led Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide [Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977: 122])
Brexit TODAY, Wednesday 29 March 2017, at 1230 Hours British Summer Time, British Prime Minister Theresa May triggered off the so-called article 50 of the treaty of Lisbon, formally announcing British termination of its membership of the European Union following the country’s 23 June 2016 historic referendum decision. In this letter of termination to Donald Tusk, the EU president, May is adamant that Britain is leaving the union to “restore ... our self determination” (“Prime Minister’s letter to Donald Tusk on the triggering of article 50”, gov.uk, 29 March 2017, [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/prime-ministers-letter-to-donald-tusk-triggering-article-50/prime-ministers-letter-to-donald-tusk-triggering-article-50], accessed 29 March 2017).
For Britain, a country that has spent the greater part of its 300 years of global conquest and occupation of states and peoples, constructing bogus and particularly ahistorical entities called “federations” to enhance its subjugation and expropriation drives (Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, Readings from Reading: Essays in African Politics, Genocide, Literature [Dakar and Reading: African Renaissance, 2011], especially pp. 1-6), its decision to desperately quit the EU agglomeration of states and peoples, just after 44 years, cannot be lost on the individual or collective sensibilities of students and scholars and other keen observers of this subject of history.
Biafra is before Brexit DEFINITELY, this is not lost on the Igbo people of Biafra of southwestcentral Africa who Britain and its amalgam of willing and ruthlesspan-African constituent nations in the British-constructed Nigeria “federation” (including, particularly, the Fulani, Kanuri, Jawara, Hausa, Nupe, Bachama, Tiv, and Jukun of the north region and the Yoruba, Itsekiri and Edo of its west provinces) have been subjected to the longest, most expansive and monstrous genocide in contemporary history – since Sunday 29 May 1966. Britain and its pan-African allies in the Nigeria “federation” murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of Igbo population during 44 months of phases I-III of the genocide (29 May 1966-12 January 1970) to preserve this Nigeria “federation”; Britain and its pan-African allies in the Nigeria “federation” have murdered tens of thousands of additional Igbo people since 13 January 1970, phase-IV, to preserve this Nigeria “federation”; as these lines are written, Britain and its pan-African allies in the Nigeria “federation” are murdering more Igbo people to preserve this Nigeria “federation” ... 2000 Igbo have been murdered between October 2015 and presently by the Nigeria regime, currently headed by Muhammadu Buhari (imposed in power in March 2015 by former British Prime Minister Cameron and ex-US President Obama, himself an African American, the first African-descent president after 233 years of the US republic), a notoriously fiendish genocidist operative who has been centrally involved in the genocide since 1966 to preserve this Nigeria “federation”… THE Igbo genocide is the longest and one of the bloodiest genocides of contemporary history. On the record, no single nation or people in Africa has suffered this extent of a catastrophic state(s)’-premeditated and organised genocide in history as the Igbo.
Post-Brexit, Biafra freedom
Prime Minster May knows that she must terminate, at once, this horrendous British-led genocide against Igbo people, 3130 miles away. Igbo people expect that a post-Brexit Britain will have no choice but sit down with a free Biafran government and discuss, fully, the entire history of the Igbo genocide, 400 years of the enslavement of the people of Biafra and the subsequent conquest and occupation of Biafra, forced into the genocidist Nigeria “federation”.
(Eric Dolphy Septet plays “Naima”, John Coltrane’s classic composition [personnel: Dolphy, bass clarinet; Donald Byrd, trumpet; Nathan Davis, tenor saxophone; Jacques Dieval, piano; Jacques B Hess, bass; Franco Manzecchi, drums; Jacky Bambou, percussion; recorded: ORTF radio broadcasts, Paris, France, 11 June 1964])
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe Background (Harold Wilson, British prime minister at the apogee of phase-III of Igbo genocide, 1968/1969, is totally unfazed as he informs Clyde Ferguson, the United States state department special coordinator for relief to Biafra, that he, Harold Wilson, “would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took” Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977: 122)
Brexit ACCORDING to multiple sources from news
agencies, newspapers and websites in Britain in the past 48 hours, Prime Minister Theresa
May will this week be triggering off the so-called article 50 of the treaty of
Lisbon, formally announcing British termination of its membership of the
European Union following the country’s 23 June 2016 historic referendum decision.
For Britain, a country that has spent the
greater part of its 300 years of global conquest and occupation of states and
peoples, constructing bogus and particularly ahistorical entities called “federations”
to enhance its subjugation and expropriation drives, its decision to desperately quit the EU
agglomeration of states and peoples, just after 44 years, cannot be lost on the individual or collective sensibilities of students and scholars and other keen observers of this subject of history.
DEFINITELY, this is not lost on the Igbo
people of Biafra of southwestcentral Africa who Britain and its amalgam of willing and ruthlesspan-African
constituent nations in the British-constructed Nigeria “federation” (including,
particularly, the Hausa-Fulani, Kanuri, Jawara, Nupe, Bachama and Jukun of the
north region and the Yoruba, Itsekiri and Edo of its west provinces) have been subjected to the longest, most expansive and monstrous genocide in contemporary
history – since Sunday 29 May 1966. Britain and its pan-African allies in the
Nigeria “federation” murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of Igbo population in phases I-III of the
genocide (29 May 1966-12 January 1970) to preserve this Nigeria “federation”; Britain and its pan-African allies in
the Nigeria “federation” have murdered tens of thousands of additional Igbo people since, phase-IV, to
preserve this Nigeria “federation”;
as these lines are written, Britain and its pan-African allies in the Nigeria “federation”
are murdering more Igbo people to preserve this
Nigeria “federation”…
Post-Brexit, Biafra freedom
Definitely, Prime Minster May knows
that she must terminate, at once, this horrendous British-led genocide against
Igbo people, 3130 miles away. Igbo people expect that a post-Brexit Britain
will have no choice but sit down with a free Biafran government and discuss
fully the entire history of the Igbo genocide, the enslavement of the people of
Biafra and the subsequent conquest and occupation of Biafra, forced into the
genocidist Nigeria “federation”. Britain will surely accept full responsibility for these crimes against humanity, apologise to Biafrans, and pay full reparations (http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-conquerors-concord-in.html).
NOW is the time.
(Eric Dolphy Septet plays “Naima”, John Coltrane’s classic composition [personnel: Dolphy, bass clarinet; Donald Byrd, trumpet; Nathan Davis, tenor saxophone; Jacques Dieval, piano; Jacques B Hess, bass; Franco Manzecchi, drums; Jacky Bambou, percussion; recorded: ORTF radio broadcasts, Paris, France, 11 June 1964])
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).
