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(Nnamdi Kanu: leader, Indigenous People of Biafra)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe TODAY, Friday 19 October
2018, 401 days after that Fulani-led genocidist Nigeria military savage attack on a loving family residence, Nnamdi
Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, appears in Jerusalem, Israel, 2,500 miles away from Biafra, solemnly offering
prayers at the city’s historic western wall (see video below). The world is now awaiting news
of Kanu’s parents, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu and Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu, who were also at home during the 14 September 2017 invasion... Scores of the Kanus’ relatives and friends were murdered during the assault and scores of others are still unaccounted for.
(1. Nnamdi Kanu: western wall, Jerusalem, Friday 19 October 2018)
(2. Nnamdi Kanu: praying, western wall, Jerusalem, Friday 19 October 2018)
(John Coltrane Sextet, “Out of this world” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone; Donald Garrett, clarinet, bass; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: live at Penthouse Jazz Club, Seattle, US, 30 September 1965])
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).
