FWD: Teresa R Kemp, African American historian, traces her origin to Oka, Biafra

(Teresa Kemp)

By Biafra Diboh (slightly edited from the original)

Teresa R Kemp, one of African Americans involved in the free medical care trip to the Anambra region, northwest Biafra, has traced the ancestral home of her father to Oka, Biafra.

Kemp, a military historian, who has in the past organised an Igbo arts and cultural festival in South Carolina, United States, said that her great grandfather, named Osinachi, was enslaved and trafficked over 187 years ago as a metalsmith from Oka to the United States, as confirmed by DNA.

With an interest in the works of African peoples, Kemp told The Nation that she had written a book, Keeper of the Fire (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Plaatform, 2014),  of an Igbo metalsmith from Awka, detailing the story of her ancestor. She describes Igbo people as hardworking, intelligent, unassuming, and entrepreneurial in nature: “I am proud to be linked to Ndiigbo, the world has prospered because of Ndiigbo”.

Kemp went to Anambra with an organisation called ASA-World (which has membership in 27 countries), made up of the region’s indigenes resident overseas whose mission is to provide free medical care for the people, costing US$ 800,000.

The team brought diagnostic equipment and medicine to be left behind for resident doctors and other health officials to continue using in Oko, in Orumba north local government, Abagana, Njikoka local government, Obosi, Idemili north local government, Ihembosi and Ozubulu, both Ekwusigo local government, and Oba, Idemili south local government district.

The medical mission treated and provided medicine to people suffering from different ailments. Total treated are: 1,100 in Oko, 8,500 in Abagana, 1,200 in Ihembosi, 1,300 in Obosi, and 1,200 in Ozubulu.

(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])

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Yet more Biafrans murdered by Nigerian genocidist military in Onicha, Biafra

The Onicha massacre of Biafrans by the Nigerian occupation genocidist military, begun on Wednesday 2 December 2015, has continued unabated. On Thursday 17 December 2015, the genocidists, positioned at Onicha head bridge, shot dead eight Biafrans celebrating the news of the release of Nnamdi Kanu, illegally detained by the Nigerian regime in a secret police facility in Abuja since mid-October. Scores of other celebrants were seriously wounded in the slaughter.  Every Biafran murdered or wounded in this trail of murders is meticulously documented and archived. Each genocidist unit involved in these murders, including command and control personnel, is meticulously documented and archived. Everyone must now know that no one or institution involved in these murders will escape justice in court for committing the crime of genocide. This crime, it couldn’t be overstressed, has no statute of limitations in international law.

Stunning silence

In the meantime, what the world cannot understand is the deafening silence on these massacres – Wednesday 2 December 2015, Thursday 17 December 2015 – from the Anambra region regime in Oka. Is this regime not aware that its citizens, its own citizens, are being murdered by Nigerian occupation military (navy, army, police, secret police, other undisclosed units) in Onicha, commercial capital of the region and the rest of Biafra? Is Onicha not part of its administrative jurisdiction? Have there been no massacres in Onicha? Why hasn’t there been any condemnation of these murders from regime executive offices in Oka? When will the Anambra region regime in Oka unequivocally condemn this 2-phase massacre of peaceful Biafrans in Onicha since Wednesday 2 December 2015?

(John Coltrane & Don Cherry, “Focus on sanity” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Cherry, cornet; Percy Heath, bass; Ed Blackwell, drums; recorded: Atlantic Studios, New York, 28 June/8 July 1960])

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FWD: Teresa R Kemp, African American historian, traces her origin to Oka, Igboland

BY Biafra Diboh (slightly edited from the original)

(Teresa Kemp)

Teresa R Kemp, one of African Americans involved in the free medical care trip to the Anambra region, northwest Igboland, has traced the ancestral home of her father to Oka, Igboland.

Kemp, a military historian, who recently organised an Igbo arts and cultural festival in South Carolina, United States, said that her great grandfather, named Osinachi, was enslaved and trafficked over 187 years ago as a metalsmith from Oka to the United States, as confirmed by DNA.

With an interest in the works of African peoples, Kemp told The Nation that she had written a book, Keeper of the Fire, of an Igbo metalsmith from Awka, detailing the story of her ancestor. She describes Igbo people as hardworking, intelligent, unassuming, and entrepreneurial in nature: “I am proud to be linked to Ndiigbo, the world has prospered because of Ndiigbo”.

Kemp went to Anambra with an organisation called ASA-World (which has membership in 27 countries), made up of the region’s indigenes resident overseas whose mission is to provide free medical care for the people, costing US$ 800,000.

The team brought diagnostic equipment and medicine to be left behind for resident doctors and other health officials to continue using in Oko, in Orumba north local government, Abagana, Njikoka local government, Obosi, Idemili north local government, Ihembosi and Ozubulu, both Ekwusigo local government, and Oba, Idemili south local government district.

The medical mission treated and provided medicine to people suffering from different ailments. Total treated are: 1,100 in Oko, 8,500 in Abagana, 1,200 in Ihembosi, 1,300 in Obosi, and 1,200 in Ozubulu.

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