7th anniversary of the publication of Chinua Achebe’s There was a Country

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

Father of African Literature’s incomparable memoirs on the Igbo genocide, the foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970 (phases I-III), when Nigeria, headed by the African Yakubu Gowon-Obafemi Awolowo bubonic genocidist dyarchy, and its ruthless suzerain, co-genocidist state Britain, headed by Prime Minister Harold Wilson (“[I] would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...”  {Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977: 122}) murdered 3.1 million Igbo people or 25 per cent of this nation’s population; the genocide continues unabated as these lines are written, phase-IV, beginning 13 January 1970, with tens of thousands of additional Igbo murdered since

(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 and Biafra 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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